Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–88) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the “dean of science fiction writers”, he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time. He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre’s standards of literary quality.
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History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Topics: Religion
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Topics: Wisdom
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Topics: Happiness, Love
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn of falsehoods.
—Robert A. Heinlein
Topics: Learning
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy–and dull fantasy at that–as the real world is strange and wonderful.
—Robert A. Heinlein
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you’ll abort it if you do. Be patient and you’ll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.
—Robert A. Heinlein
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
—Robert A. Heinlein
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