Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.

Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

We're not thinking about the past, we're full steam ahead on the future.

You still have to be excited about getting up and trying to figure out what we can get better at, and that's very important to me.

When you think you're on top of your game, you've got to change it, and keep evolving and keep getting better.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

You have to keep evolving.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

Science is the future of mankind.