Robert A. Heinlein/Quotes

Quotes in works by Robert A. Heinlein

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?

—Doctor Pinero, Life Line, 1939

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

—Logic of Empire (1941), Precursor to Hanlon's Razor

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

—Assignment in Eternity (1953)

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

—The Rolling Stones (1952)

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

—The Rolling Stones (1952)

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

—Double Star (1956)

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

—Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

Quotes about Robert A. Heinlein

He knows I'm a flipped-out freak and still he helped me and my wife when we were in trouble. That is the best in humanity, there; that is who and what I love.

—Philip K. Dick, after Heinlein loaned him money to pay his taxes. (Heinlein and Dick disagreed on almost everything.)

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