Robert Anson Heinlein: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

Robert Anson Heinlein era autore di fantascienza statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“Work is not an end in itself; there must always be time enough for love.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Origine: 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)
Variante: 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

Variante: Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Origine: Time Enough for Love

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

Robert A. Heinlein libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein libro 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 libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

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

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

Robert A. Heinlein libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

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

“Television leaves no external scars.”

Robert A. Heinlein libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

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

“There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.”

Robert A. Heinlein libro The Man Who Sold the Moon

The Man Who Sold the Moon (p. 100)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“All men are created unequal.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)

“How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?”

Robert A. Heinlein libro Life-Line

Life-Line (p. 15)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“It seemed to John that most of the older people in the world spent much of their time not listening.”

Robert A. Heinlein libro The Star Beast

Origine: The Star Beast (1954), Chapter 3, “—An Improper Question” (p. 53)

“When it comes down to it, the root cause of war is always population pressure no matter what other factors enter in.”

Robert A. Heinlein libro Time for the Stars

Origine: Time for the Stars (1956), Chapter 4, “Half a Loaf” (p. 44)

“You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.”

Robert A. Heinlein libro The Green Hills of Earth

Logic of Empire (p. 335); this is one of the earliest known variants of an idea which has become known as Hanlon's razor.
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Origine: The Green Hills of Earth