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Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

Kim Stanley Robinson quotes

American Writer March 23, 1952

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The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage. Kim Stanley Robinson
And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild. Kim Stanley Robinson
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our tim? Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who..."
It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow..."
...no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "...teaching was the most rigorous form of learning."
...teaching was the most rigorous form of learning. Kim Stanley Robinson
Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true. Kim Stanley Robinson
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before. Kim Stanley Robinson
Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. Kim Stanley Robinson
Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon..."
Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that..."
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us. Kim Stanley Robinson
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking -- an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything. Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson quote: "Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't..."
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. Kim Stanley Robinson
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. Kim Stanley Robinson

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