Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each shell is… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind. without the human presence it is just a concatenation of atoms, no different… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“To her data analysis was the ugly love child of science and Kafka,” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The battle for control of science went on. Many administrations and Congresses hadn’t wanted technology or the environment assessed at all, as… — 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
