Kim Stanley Robinson Short Quotes

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Science is—or should be—the greenest force of all.

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First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

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It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

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It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

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Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

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One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

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Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

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Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

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You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.

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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

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It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

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Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

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Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

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Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

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Plague was plague, and could not be treated lightly. And this plague was obviously worse than most, having killed everyone in the region.

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He often spoke aloud to himself now, or hummed, without ever noticing it, as if ignoring an old companion who always said the same things.

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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.

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Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

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The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

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Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic.

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