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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

“The situation has multifarious ramifications not immediately apparent to the unassisted optic.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Rolling Stones

Zdroj: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 13, “Caveat Vendor” (pp. 177-178)

“‘Magic,’” I stated, “is a symbol for any process not understood.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Number of the Beast

Zdroj: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XVII : The world wobbled—, p. 151

“It is better to be a lively frump than a stylish corpse.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Number of the Beast

Zdroj: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXIII : “The farce is over.”, p. 212

“I said, “What do you think about it, Paul?”
The boss smiled gently. “I don’t. I haven’t enough data.””

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Farmer in the Sky

Zdroj: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (pp. 193-194)

“Random numbers are to a computer what free will is to a human being.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Number of the Beast

Zdroj: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXI : —three seconds is a long time—, p. 180

“When a fact came along, he junked theories that failed to match.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Zdroj: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 12

“Fighting continued on a token basis, and the dead did not complain.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha I Will Fear No Evil

Zdroj: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 12, p. 171

“Wong shook his head sadly. “I sometimes think that modern education is deliberately designed to handicap a boy.””

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Space Cadet

Zdroj: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 6 “Reading, and ’riting, and ’rithmetic—”, p. 71

“The next level in moral behavior higher than that exhibited by the baboon is that in which duty and loyalty are shown toward a group of your own kind too large for an individual to know all of them. We have a name for that. It is called "patriotism."”

Behaving on a still higher moral level were the astronauts who went to the Moon, for their actions tend toward the survival of the entire race of mankind. The door they opened leads to the hope that H. sapiens will survive indefinitely long, even longer than this solid planet on which we stand tonight. As a direct result of what they did, it is now possible that the human race will never die.
Many short-sighted fools think that going to the Moon was just a stunt. But the astronauts knew the meaning of what they were doing, as is shown by Neil Armstrong's first words in stepping down onto the soil of Luna: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)

“Marriage is not ownership and wives are not property.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha The Puppet Masters

Zdroj: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 21 (p. 116)

“He gave up and went back to loafing, found that he could sleep all right in the afternoons but that the practice kept him awake at night.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Between Planets

Zdroj: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 17, “To Reset the Clock” (p. 173)

“The sort of guardian you can hire is worth about as much as the sort of wife you can buy.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Space Cadet

Zdroj: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 12 “P.R.S. Pathfinder”, p. 143

“The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Zdroj: To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987), p. 370 (Ace 1988)

“I looked it up later; he was right. Dad is an absolute mine of useless information. He says a fact should be loved for itself alone.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Farmer in the Sky

Zdroj: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 9, “The Moons of Jupiter” (pp. 90-91)

“The door dilated.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Beyond This Horizon

This offhand mention has become the simplest (three words!) and often-quoted exposition of the wonders of a different world, where what would be novel today has become simply the way things work.
Zdroj: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 1, “All of them should have been very happy—”, p. 5 and several other times

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