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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 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

“Why do you like to play chess so well?”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha They

“Because it is the only thing in the world where I can see all the factors and understand all the rules.”
They (p. 55)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)

“Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Methuselah's Children

Lazarus stood up and stretched and scratched his ribs. “But I can tell you this, Andy, whatever the answers are, here’s one monkey that’s going to keep on climbing, and looking around him to see what he can see, as long as the tree holds out.”
Methuselah’s Children (p. 667; closing words)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“What course of action do you favor?”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Methuselah's Children

“Me? Why, none. Mary, if there is any one thing I have learned in the past couple of centuries, it’s this: These things pass. Wars and depressions and Prophets and Covenants—they pass. The trick is to stay alive through them.”
Methuselah’s Children (p. 539)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“You have to believe evidence when you have it in front of you, or else the universe is just too fantastic.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Time for the Stars

Zdroj: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 12, “Tau Ceti” (p. 122)

“Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Time for the Stars

Zdroj: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 7, “19,900 Ways” (p. 70)

“I decided not to cross any bridges I had burned behind me.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Time for the Stars

Zdroj: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 7, “19,900 Ways” (p. 69)

“Parents probably don’t know that they are playing favorites even when they are doing it.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Time for the Stars

Zdroj: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 5, “The Party of the Second Part” (p. 54)

“I was confused. I didn’t feel telepathic; I merely felt hungry.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Time for the Stars

Zdroj: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 2, “The Natural Logarithm of Two” (p. 24)

“I used to wonder what it was like to be rich. Now I am and it turns out to be mostly headaches.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Citizen of the Galaxy

Zdroj: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 20 (p. 224)

“Pop, who maintained that a wise man could not be insulted, since truth could not insult and untruth was not worthy of notice.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Citizen of the Galaxy

Zdroj: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 10 (p. 108)

“Self-pity, he said, is the most demoralizing of all vices.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Friday

Zdroj: Friday (1982), Chapter 24 (p. 244)

“Marriages are arranged in heaven but the bills must be paid here on earth.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Friday

Zdroj: Friday (1982), Chapter 6 (p. 49)

“A baby is lots more fun than differential equations.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Podkayne of Mars

Zdroj: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 10 (p. 127)

“People who are busy and happy don’t write diaries; they are too busy living.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Friday

Zdroj: Friday (1982), Chapter 33 (p. 353)

“Religious = absolute belief without proof.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Friday

Zdroj: Friday (1982), Chapter 18 (p. 181)

“No one knows much about California politics, including California politicians.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Friday

Zdroj: Friday (1982), Chapter 15 (p. 137)

“You’re not a stranger; you’re an old friend we haven’t known very long.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Friday

Zdroj: Friday (1982), Chapter 12 (p. 110)

“Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Friday

Zdroj: Friday (1982), Chapter 4 (p. 37)

“Anything that is moral for a group to do is moral for one person to do.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Podkayne of Mars

There must be a flaw in that, since I’ve always been taught that it is wrong to take the law in your own hands. But I can’t find the flaw and it sounds axiomatic, self-evident. Switch it around. If something is wrong for one person to do, can it possibly be made right by having a lot of people (a government) agree to do it together? Even unanimously?
If anything is wrong, it is wrong—and vox populi can’t change it.
Zdroj: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 13 (p. 169)

“It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.”

Robert A. Heinlein kniha Podkayne of Mars

Zdroj: Podkayne of Mars (1963), Chapter 8 (p. 94)

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