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Robert Heinlein
(7 Jul 1907 - 8 May 1988)
American author who is one of the foremost of the science fiction novelists, noted for maintaining plausibility in his treatment of science in his stories.
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Science Quotes by Robert Heinlein (7)
'Logic' proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything wihich didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
— Robert Heinlein
Glory Road (1963)
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house
— Robert Heinlein
Spoken by character Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love (1973), 263. In Carl C. Gaither, Mathematically Speaking (1998), 206.
See also: | Mathematics (221)
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.
— Robert Heinlein
Spoken by character Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love (1973). In Leon E. Stover, Heinlein (1987), 103.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
— Robert Heinlein
Time Enough For Love (1973). In Robert Deigh, How Come No One Knows about Us? (2008), 122.
See also: | Universe (138)
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
— Robert Heinlein
Time Enough For Love: the Lives of Lazarus Long (1973, 1974), 366.
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 Heinlein
Methuselah's Children, revised (1958). In The Past Through Tomorrow: 'Future History' Stories (1967), 666.
This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.
— Robert Heinlein
The Number of the Beast (1980), 14. In Carl C. Gaither, Physically Speaking (1997), 340.
