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Robert Anson Heinlein fue un escritor estadounidense de ciencia ficción. Ganó cuatro premios Hugo por Estrella doble , Tropas del espacio , Forastero en tierra extraña y La Luna es una cruel amante . Fue elegido en 1974 Gran Maestro por la Asociación de escritores de ciencia ficción y fantasía de Estados Unidos , convirtiéndose así en el primer galardonado con esta distinción.

Habitualmente riguroso en cuanto a la base científica en sus historias, incluso sus historias de fantasía contienen una estructura científica lógica. Una de las características que definen su escritura fue el introducir en la temática de la ciencia ficción la administración, la política, la economía, la lingüística, la sociología y la genética. Fue también uno de los abanderados del individualismo, lo cual quedaba reflejado en la riqueza de los personajes , tanto en conocimientos, como en habilidades.

Otro de los temas recurrentes en este autor es cuestionar las costumbres contemporáneas, culturales, sociales y sexuales, describiendo sociedades con ideales bastante alejados de los de la sociedad occidental de su época. Estas ideas se reflejan en varios de sus libros, como en Forastero en tierra extraña o El número de la bestia .

Un relato que sobresale por su predicción social fue Solución incompleta , en la que predice que durante la creación inicial de armas atómicas, en Estados Unidos se creería que será el arma definitiva de control mundial. Y en el mismo relato se predice también la "amenaza nuclear" por la que muchos países se abstendrían de usar la guerra -y estas armas- ante la inminente destrucción tanto propia como de su contrincante.[1]​ Wikipedia  

✵ 7. julio 1907 – 8. mayo 1988  •  Otros nombres Robert Heinlein, Роберт Энсон Хайнлайн
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Frases célebres de Robert Anson Heinlein

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“Un hombre prudente es una persona que cree que sus propias reglas de comportamiento son leyes naturales.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

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“Puedes tener paz. O puedes tener libertad. Nunca cuentes con tener ambos a la vez.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

“Un ser humano debe ser capaz de cambiar pañales, planear invasiones, carnear cerdos, navegar barcos, diseñar edificios, escribir sonetos, contabilizar saldos, levantar paredes, tratar fracturas, dar consuelo a moribundos, recibir órdenes, dar órdenes, cooperar, actuar solo, resolver ecuaciones, analizar nuevos problemas, palear estiércol, programar computadoras, cocinar bien, luchar eficientemente, morir con gallardía. La especialización es para los insectos.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

Fuente: Tiempo para amar (1973).

“Yo soy libre, al margen de las normas que me rodean. Si las encuentro soportables, las soporto; si me parecen detestables, las quebranto. Soy libre porque sé que soy moralmente responsable de todo lo que hago.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

Fuente: La luna es una cruel amante.

“La democracia no puede funcionar. Matemáticos, campesinos, y animales, eso es todo lo que hay. Así que la democracia, una teoría basada en la asunción de que los matemáticos y los campesinos son iguales, nunca puede funcionar. La sabiduría no es aditiva; su máximo es el del hombre más sabio del grupo.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

Fuente: Glory Road (1963).

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“Una sociedad armada es una sociedad educada.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

Fuente: Beyond This Horizon (1942)

“La noción de que cuando un hombre o una compañía han sacado un beneficio del público durante un cierto número de años, el gobierno y los tribunales tienen el deber de salvaguardar esos beneficios en el futuro, incluso […] contra el beneficio del público. […] Ni los individuos ni las corporaciones tienen el menor derecho de acudir a los tribunales y exigir que el reloj de la historia sea detenido, o retrasado, en beneficio particular suyo.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

Fuente: La línea de la vida (1939).

“El pecado se encuentra solamente en querer herir a otras personas innecesariamente. Todos los demás pecados son disparatados inventos. El automaltrato no es un pecado… es simplemente estúpido.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

“La teología nunca ha sido de gran ayuda, es como buscar, a medianoche y en un sótano oscuro, a un gato negro que no está ahí.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

“Los diez mandamientos están hechos para cerebros aburridos. Los primeros cinco son exclusivamente para el beneficio de los curas y sus poderes; los segundos cinco son medias verdades, ni completas ni adecuadas.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

“Isaac Asimov gana dinero a costa de su neurosis”

Robert Anson Heinlein

“Oremos por un último aterrizaje
sobre el globo que nos vio nacer.
Fijemos nuestros ojos en el cielo aborregado
y las frescas, verdes colinas de la Tierra.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

The Green Hills of Earth

“Brindemos por la raza femenina, Pet… ¡Encuéntralas y olvídalas!”

Robert Anson Heinlein

The Door Into Summer

“Las mejores cosas de la vida están por encima del dinero; su precio es la angustia, el sudor y la dedicación, y el precio que exige la más preciosa de de todas las cosas es la vida misma, el costo definitivo para el valor perfecto”

Robert Anson Heinlein

“Hice un descubrimiento muy importante en el campamento Currie: la felicidad consiste en dormir suficiente.”

Robert Anson Heinlein libro Starship Troopers

Starship troopers

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“Dije que "Patriotismo" es una forma de decir "Mujeres y niños primero". Y que nadie puede obligar a un hombre a sentirse así. En su lugar, debe abrazarlo libremente.”

Robert Anson Heinlein

“La violencia, la fuerza bruta, ha zanjado más asuntos en la historia de lo que lo ha hecho cualquier otro factor, y la opinión contraria es pensamiento voluntarista del peor.”

Robert Anson Heinlein libro Starship Troopers

Original en inglés: «Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst».
Fuente: Starship Troopers, (1959).

“Escuche siempre a los expertos. Le dirán lo que no puede hacerse y por qué. ¡Luego hágalo!!”

Robert Anson Heinlein

Fuente: [Zelinski], Ernie J. 101 cosas que ya sabes, pero siempre olvidas, p. 102. Editorial AMAT, 2012. https://books.google.es/books?id=vOLIXDVy_m8C&pg=PA125&dq=%22Henry+Miller%22+dijo&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis7u7a0tfiAhXK8OAKHRtXBWEQ6AEIVDAI#v=onepage&q=%22Henry%20Miller%22%20dijo&f=false En Google Books. Consultado el 7 de junio de 2019.

Robert Anson Heinlein: Frases en inglés

“The Koran cannot be translated — the "map" changes on translation no matter how carefully one tries.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein, in Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

“I learned before you were born that when someone wants to see me in a hurry, the urgency is almost never mutual.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Number of the Beast

Fuente: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXIX : “—we place no faith in princes.”, p. 290

“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Life-Line

Life-Line (p. 25)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“I've heard all the usual Sweetness and Light that kids get pushed at them—how they should always forgive, how there’s some good in the worst of us, etc. But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don’t plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people. A black widow spider can’t help it—but that’s the point.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

Fuente: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 10

“The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That’s a personal evaluation, of course.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Fuente: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 9, “When we die, do we die all over?”, p. 97

“Bill, why is it that some apparently-grown men never learn to do simple arithmetic?”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Farmer in the Sky

Fuente: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 14, “Land of My Own” (p. 142)

“Go ahead. Go right ahead. Don’t let me discourage you. Any objections from me would simply confirm your preconceptions.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Rolling Stones

Fuente: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 14, “Flat Cats Factorial” (p. 187)

““What sort of a remark?”
“Just priestly mumbo-jumbo. Impressive and no real meaning. Can you do it?”
“I think so—I used to sell magazine subscriptions.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Sixth Column

Fuente: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 10 (p. 127)

““What course of action do you favor?”
“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.””

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Robert A. Heinlein

“Methuselah’s Children” Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 539
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“Beat the plowshares back into swords; the other was a maiden aunt’s fancy.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Puppet Masters

Fuente: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 35 (p. 174)

“Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

credited to Lowell Stone, M.D., born 2144; chapter 15, p. 185
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

“First they junked the concept of “justice.” Examined semantically “justice” has no referent—there is no observable phenomenon in the space-time-matter continuum to which one can point, and say, “This is justice.” Science can deal only with that which can be observed and measured. Justice is not such a matter; therefore it can never have the same meaning to one as to another; any “noises” said about it will only add to confusion.
But damage, physical or economic, can be pointed to and measured. Citizens were forbidden by the Covenant to damage another. Any act not leading to damage, physical or economic, to some particular person, they declared to be lawful.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

“Coventry”, pp. 500-501; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction (July 1940)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“High I. Q., good compatibility index, superior education—everything that makes a person pleasant and easy and interesting to have around.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Past Through Tomorrow

The Long Watch (p. 255)
The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“People tend to fall into three psychological types, all differently motivated. There is the type, motivated by economic factors, money…And there is the type motivated by ‘face,’ or pride. This type is a spender, fighter, boaster, lover, sportsman, gambler; he has a will to power and an itch for glory. And there is the professional type, which claims to follow a code of ethics rather than simply seeking money or glory—priests and ministers, teachers, scientists, medical men, some artists and writers. The idea is that such a man believes that he is devoting his life to some purpose more important than his individual self. You follow me?”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Space Cadet

Fuente: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 9 “Long Haul”, p. 111

“From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro If This Goes On

If This Goes On— (p. 431)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

““You have us going faster than light.”
“I thought the figures were a bit large.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Rolling Stones

Fuente: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 8, “The Mighty Room” (p. 100)

“Natural selection—the dying out of the poorly equipped—goes on day in and day out, inexorable and automatic. It is as tireless, as inescapable, as entropy.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Fuente: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 134

“We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we’ll ever eliminate taxes.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro I Will Fear No Evil

Fuente: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 24, p. 406

“A religion is sometime a source of happiness, and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong. The great trouble with religion — any religion — is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason — but one cannot have both.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Friday

Friday (1983)

““Going to dance at my wake?”
“I don’t dance,” the lawyer answered, “but you tempt me to learn.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro I Will Fear No Evil

Fuente: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 1, p. 13

“The next higher level is to work, fight, and sometimes die for your own immediate family. This is the level at which six pounds of mother cat can be so fierce that she'll drive off a police dog. It is the level at which a father takes a moonlighting job to keep his kids in college — and the level at which a mother or father dives into a flood to save a drowning child … and it is still moral behavior even when it fails.”

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Robert A. Heinlein

The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)

“Don, have you been dealing with a booklegger?”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Between Planets

Fuente: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 1, “New Mexico” (p. 10) - Mr. Reeves, asking the main character why he was in possession of a forbidden book discussing interplanetary politics.

“A second sun blazed white and swelled visibly as he watched. What on Earth would have been—so many times had been—a climbing mushroom cloud was here in open space a perfect geometrical sphere, growing unbelievably. It swelled still larger, dropping from limelight white to to silvery violet, became blotched with purple, red and flame. And still it grew, until it blanked out the earth beyond it.
At the time it had been transformed into a radioactive cosmic cloud Circum-Terra had been passing over, or opposite, the North Atlantic; the swollen incandescent cloud was visible to most of the habitable portions of the globe, a burning symbol in the sky.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Between Planets

Fuente: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 6, “The Sign in the Sky” (p. 75)

“It was so darn quiet you could hear your hair grow.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Farmer in the Sky

Fuente: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 13, “Johnny Appleseed” (p. 131)

“We lived like that “Happy Family“ you sometimes see in traveling zoos: a lion caged with a lamb. It is a startling exhibit but the lamb has to be replaced frequently.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Have Space Suit—Will Travel

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

“This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Number of the Beast

Fuente: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter II : “This Universe never did make sense—”, p. 16

“Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Tunnel in the Sky

Fuente: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 2, “The Fifth Way” (p. 42)

“I am forced to conclude that being right has little to do with holding a woman’s affections.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro The Number of the Beast

Fuente: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXVI : The Keys to the City, p. 243

“History is never surprising—after it happens.”

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Logic of Empire

Logic of Empire (p. 333)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)

“Hamilton took a deep breath, let it out, then said, “Listen to me. I don’t know much about women, and sometimes it seems like I didn’t know anything about them. But I’m sure of this—she won’t let a little thing like you taking a pot shot at her stand in the way if you ever had any chance with her at all. She’ll forgive you.”
“You don’t really mean that, do you?” Monroe-Alpha’s face was still tragic, but he clutched at the hope.
“Certainly I do. Women will forgive anything.” With a flash of insight he added, “Otherwise the race would have died out long ago.””

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Robert A. Heinlein libro Beyond This Horizon

Fuente: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 10, “—the only game in town”, pp. 108-109

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