Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The gooseneck," Badim adds, with a quick smile at Freya. "It connects the boom to the mast, but it isn't very robust.
Genius is not a matter of intelligence, but of spirit; and we cannot speak accurately of the spirit in any language but music.
They were somewhere near Chelyabinsk 56, someone said. You don't want to go there, a Russian added. One of Stalin's biggest messes.
It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.
We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.
And analogies were mostly meaningless - a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy).
it looked like the centuries-long wrestling match between state and capital had ended in a decisive victory for capital. Possibly
Existential nausea comes from feeling trapped. It is an affect state resulting from the feeling that the future has only bad options.
All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves.
Maybe that's what a marriage is," Mqaret said. "Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.
You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated.
"Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!
"Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!
Knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.
In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if stands as the basic operation of cognition, the mark perhaps of consciousness itself. Human
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
Is anger always just fear flung outward at the world? Can anger ever be a fuel for right action? Can anger make good? We
The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128
And, you know, you never really summon all of your strength until you know that there's no way back, no way to go but onward.
Slow is not the same as deficient. It's just slow. A glacier is slow too, but it gets there, and nothing stops it.
The locus of power wandered the face of the Earth like some poor restless immortal, following the sun.
Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.
In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental.
when you are a small minority and you own the majority's wealth, security is naturally a primary consideration.
Capital itself is simply the useful residue of the work of past laborers, and it could belong to everyone as well as to a few.
It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.
It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.
No one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.
Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.
Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.
It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.
And some part of him saw it was going to be all right. the heart is pleased by one thing after another.
No one knows anything. But I know less than that, because I thought I knew something, but it was wrong. So I know negatively. I unknow.
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.