Robert Anson Heinlein citáty

Robert Anson Heinlein byl jeden z nejvlivnějších a nejkontroverznějších spisovatelů science fiction. Společně s A. C. Clarkem a Isaacem Asimovem byli v americké literatuře známi jako „Velká trojice science fiction“. Byl prvním spisovatelem sci-fi, který pronikl i do nefantastických magazínů. Hlavní témata jeho práce byla sociální: radikální individualismus, svobodná vůle, náboženství, vztah mezi fyzickou a emocionální láskou a spekulace o poněkud neortodoxních rodinných vztazích.

✵ 7. červenec 1907 – 8. květen 1988   •   Další jména Robert Heinlein, Роберт Энсон Хайнлайн
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Robert Anson Heinlein citát: „Ženy a kočky dělají, co chtějí, a muži a psi by se měli uklidnit a zvyknout si na to.“

Robert Anson Heinlein citáty a výroky

„Motýli nejsou hmyz. Jsou to samohybné květiny.“

Originál: (en) Butterflies are not insects. They are self propelled flowers.
Zdroj: [Heinlein, Robert Anson, 1988, The cat who walks through walls: a comedy of manners, Ace Books, 369, angličtina]

„Básník, který čte své verše na veřejnosti, mívá obvykle i další hrozné zlozvyky.“

Originál: (en) A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Zdroj: [Baen, Jim, 1988, New Destinies, Svazek 6, Baen Books, 63, angličtina]

Robert Anson Heinlein: Citáty anglicky

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Hvězdná pěchota

Zdroj: Starship Troopers

“Life is short, but the years are long.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Methuselah's Children

Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)

“A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love (1973)

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

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Stranger in a Strange Land

"Jubal Harshaw" in the first edition (1961); the later 1991 "Uncut" edition didn't have this line, because it was one Heinlein had added when he went through and trimmed the originally submitted manuscript on which the "Uncut" edition is based. Heinlein also later used a variant of this in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls where he has Xia quote Harshaw: "Dr. Harshaw says that 'the word "love" designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.'"
Zdroj: Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)

“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)

“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love (1973)

“The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Gwen Novak (Hazel Stone); chapter 18, p. 230
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
Kontext: The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it — once you can honestly say, "I don't know", then it becomes possible to get at the truth.

“A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

“You live and learn. Or you don't live long.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love (1973)

“Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)
Varianta: Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

“If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Varianta: Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Zdroj: Time Enough for Love

““Die trying” is the proudest human thing.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Zdroj: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 11

“Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Methuselah's Children

Methuselah's Children (1958)

“There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Zdroj: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 2

“When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Zdroj: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 7

“Television leaves no external scars.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Zdroj: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 3

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