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Kim Stanley Robinson ist ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Autor.

✵ 23. März 1952
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“But one had to trust instruments over instincts, that was science.”

Quelle: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 70)

“Not everyone was as good at creation as they were at complaining.”

Quelle: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 64)

“Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 10, “Phase Change” (p. 579)

“Every generation is its own secret society.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 480)

“If enough data points trouble the theory, the theory may be wrong. If the theory is basic, the paradigm may have to change.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 410)

“Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 395)

“Anyone can agree that things should be fair, and the world just. The way to get there is always the real problem.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 391)

““Art is an optimist,” Nadia said to Maya as they walked on.
“Art is an idiot,” Maya replied.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 356)

“One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 296)

“Rituals should have some unpleasantness, or you don’t appreciate them properly.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 291)

“No step along the way had seemed more than a little thing; but altogether it came to something rather monstrous.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 4, “The Scientist as Hero” (p. 199)

“But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 127)

“In the random flux of universal contingency, nothing mattered; and yet, and yet...”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 125)

“Continuous expansion is a fundamental tenet of economics. Therefore one of the fundamentals of the universe itself. Because everything is economics. Physics is cosmic economics, biology is cellular economics, the humanities are social economics, psychology is mental economics, and so on.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

His listeners nodded unhappily.
“So everything is expanding. But it can’t happen in contradiction to the law of conservation of matter-energy. No matter how efficient your throughput is, you can’t get an output larger than the input.”
Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 2, “The Ambassador” (pp. 76-77)

“Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom.”

Kim Stanley Robinson buch Green Mars

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 1, “Areoformation” (p. 35)

“Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation.”

Quelle: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 460)

“Friendship was just diplomacy by other means, after all.”

Quelle: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 432)

“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”

Quelle: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 431)

“Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.”

Quelle: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 394)

“Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.”

Quelle: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 375)

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