Robert Heinlein
| Born | July 7, 1907 Butler, Missouri |
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| Died | May 8, 1988 Carmel, California |
The repository contains eight quotes from Robert Heinlein.
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dream world.
A cocktail party: People who don’t like each other particularly, standing around (never enough chairs), talking about things they aren’t interested in, drinking drinks they don’t want (why set a time to take a drink?) and getting high so that they won’t notice they aren’t having fun.
Love your country, but never trust its government.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
Women and cats do what they do; there is nothing a man can do about it.
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone’s opinion is worth the same.
Motivation • Science and Technology
Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
