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Robert A. Heinlein on Intelligence

1907–1988 United States

← All quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

6 quotes

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.

Friday (1982)

Stupid fools look just as good as military geniuses until the fighting starts.

Friday (1982)

I don’t believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

The Puppet Masters (1951)

But as grandpop always said, there are just three ways to get ahead; sweat and genius, getting born into the right family, or marrying into it.

Starman Jones (1953)

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Double Star (1956)

Quantum mechanics and Schrödinger’s cat tossed out the clockwork world of 1890 and replaced it with a fog of probability in which anything could happen. Of course the intellectual class did not notice this for many decades, as an intellectual is a highly educated man who can’t do arithmetic with his shoes on, and is proud of the lack.

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert A. Heinlein (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.