Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way… — Robert Charles Wilson Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning… — Robert Charles Wilson Burning Copy Share Image
“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words… — Robert Charles Wilson Einstein Copy Share Image
“The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.” — Robert Charles Wilson Universe Copy Share Image
“Fifteen minutes shy of two o’clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.” — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass. — Robert Charles Wilson Angel Copy Share Image
“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had… — Robert Charles Wilson Alcoholism Copy Share Image
“I had an idea that sobriety was a weapon. I thought it would give me an advantage over my enemies. I wasn't… — Robert Charles Wilson Sobriety Copy Share Image
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced… — Robert Charles Wilson Classic Copy Share Image
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make… — Robert Charles Wilson Evolution Copy Share Image
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can… — Robert Charles Wilson Astronomy Copy Share Image
It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond… — Robert Charles Wilson Appreciate Copy Share Image
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it. — Robert Charles Wilson Absence Copy Share Image
I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are… — Robert Charles Wilson Eye Copy Share Image
“We contrast the urban and the natural, but that’s a contemporary myth. We’re animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully… — Robert Charles Wilson Nature Copy Share Image
Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption.… — Robert Charles Wilson Arrivals Copy Share Image
“Superstition...is what we call the miracles we don't approve of.” — Robert Charles Wilson Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
“… the vices and wickedness of the Secular Era, some of which still lingered, he said, in the cities of the East… — Robert Charles Wilson Space travel Copy Share Image
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. — Robert Charles Wilson Adulthood Copy Share Image
“there is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are… — Robert Charles Wilson Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The… — Robert Charles Wilson Acting Copy Share Image
