Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Spacemen die if they stay in one place.
Robert A. Heinlein
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert A. Heinlein
Age: 80 †
Born: 1907
Born: July 7
Died: 1988
Died: May 8
Essayist
Literary Critic
Naval Officer
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Science Writer
Screenwriter
Stonemason
Writer
Butler
Missouri
Robert Anson Heinlein
Anson MacDonald
Lyle Monroe
John Riverside
Caleb Saunders
Simon York
Astronaut
Traveler
Stay
Dies
Place
More quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.
Robert A. Heinlein
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.
Robert A. Heinlein
Was there ever a time when the majority was right?
Robert A. Heinlein
In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.
Robert A. Heinlein
Logic is a feeble reed, friend. Logic proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
Robert A. Heinlein
Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
Robert A. Heinlein
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
Robert A. Heinlein
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
Robert A. Heinlein
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Robert A. Heinlein
A zest for living must include a willingness to die.
Robert A. Heinlein
Never tease an old dog he might have one bite left.
Robert A. Heinlein
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
Robert A. Heinlein
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein
God split himself into a myriad parts that he might have friends. This may not be true, but it sounds good, and is no sillier than any other theology.
Robert A. Heinlein
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Robert A. Heinlein
Each generation thinks it invented sex each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England the differences lie only in the degree of coverup - if any.
Robert A. Heinlein
Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.
Robert A. Heinlein
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Robert A. Heinlein
Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.
Robert A. Heinlein
...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.
Robert A. Heinlein