罗伯特·安森·海因莱因(Robert Anson Heinlein，1907 – 1988 ) 是美国科幻小说作家、航空工程师和海军军官。有时他被称为“科幻作家的教长”，他是第一个在他的小说中强调科学准确性的人之一，因此是硬科学小说亚流派的先驱。他出版的作品，无论是小说还是非小说，都表达了对能力的赞赏，并强调批判性思维的价值。他的作品继续影响着科幻小说流派，更广泛地影响着现代文化。
英汉智慧语录 English and Chinese Brainy Quotes
Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
永远不要成为一个悲观主义者……更多情况下悲观主义者比乐观主义者更正确，但乐观主义者更有乐趣，两者都不能阻止事态的发展。
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.
不要让你的孩子的生活过于安逸轻松，而妨碍他们的成长。
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
你可以拥有平静，或者你可以拥有自由。不要指望同时拥有两个。
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
如果另外那个人的幸福是你幸福的根本所在，那就是爱。
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
永远不要低估人类愚蠢的力量。
The lessons of history teach us – if the lessons of history teach us anything – that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us
历史的教训告诉我们——如果历史的经验教训告诉我们什么的话——那就是：没有人吸取历史给我们的教训。
There seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.
理性思考在这方面似乎确实出现了衰退。美国已经成为一个娱乐界人士和职业运动员被误认为大人物的地方。他们被偶像化，被当作领袖对待; 所有事情都征求他们的意见，他们也同样严肃地对待自己——毕竟，如果一个运动员一年挣一百万或更多，他就知道自己很重要……所以他对外交和国内政策的见解也一定很重要，即使他一开口就证明自己是无知的，而且文字较低的水平。
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic
你用迎合他们的偏见来说服一千个人，要比用逻辑说服一个人快得多。
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire
政治标签——比如保皇党、共产主义、民主主义、民粹主义、法西斯主义、自由主义、保守主义等等——从来都不是基本标准。人类在政治上分为两类: 一类是希望人们被控制的人，另一类是没有这种欲望的人。