Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Impossible Things, Done

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

• A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hate, Science, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.323, Penguin

• Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Baby, Children, Learning

• No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Dream, Science, Mad

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.41, Penguin

• Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Technology, Worry

  "Waldo & Magic, Inc". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1950.

• There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Men, Noses

• A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Determination, Science, Astrology

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.235, Penguin

• Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

• The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Differences, Fuzzy

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

• The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Vices, Vice Versa

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.231, Penguin

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