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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes about Science

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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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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