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Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

Kim Stanley Robinson quotes

American Writer March 23, 1952

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Oh God," Coyote said, and rolled onto his side, propping his head up on one hand. "It's hard to remember something that long ago. It's almost like an epic poem I memorized once, and can barely recite anymore. Kim Stanley Robinson
If I have seen far less than others," Galileo complained, "it is because I was standing on the shoulders of dwarves." (from Galileo's Dream) Kim Stanley Robinson
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y. Kim Stanley Robinson
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. Kim Stanley Robinson
It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative. Kim Stanley Robinson
We have to start doing this in ignorance of the details of how to do it. We have to learn how to do it in the attempt itself. It is something we are going to have to imagine. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "But lies were what people wanted; that was politics."
But lies were what people wanted; that was politics. Kim Stanley Robinson
And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them. Kim Stanley Robinson
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. Kim Stanley Robinson
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "And some part of him saw it was going to be all right. the..."
And some part of him saw it was going to be all right. the heart is pleased by one thing after another. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a..."
It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "The only part of an argument that really matters is what we..."
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "If you don’t act on it, it wasn’t a true feeling"
If you don’t act on it, it wasn’t a true feeling Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "Every moment an epiphany arrives, and cleaves the mountain..."
Every moment an epiphany arrives, and cleaves the mountain asunder. Kim Stanley Robinson

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