History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“After all, in the end all the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads. The moments of change, or… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“history never ends, and good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“...no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“...what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“History is humankind trying to get a grip. Obviously not easy. But it could go better if you would pay a little… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Must redefine utopia. It isn't the perfect end-product of our wishes, define it so and it deserves the scorn of those who… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Because history is the soap opera that hurts, the kabuki with real knives.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can’t make love to your fame. Even though some people try.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It was possible… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The Earth is bathed in a flood of sunlight. A fierce inundation of photons—on average, 342 joules per second per square meter. 4185 joules… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“And so sometimes when you feel strange, when a pang tugs at your heart or it seems like the moment has already happened- or… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“...what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be made. That's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“There remained a main melody, or a path through a maze—a maze that was like the delta of the Po. He seemed to look… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
