"One of the chief features of incompetence was……" — Kim Stanley Robinson
"One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself."
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31 Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson has 31 quotes on this site.
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Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical…
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You can only kill disappointment with a new try.
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You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always…
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Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe…
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When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.
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The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old…
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It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
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Atoms have a nucleus, made of protons and neutrons bound together. Around this nucleus shells of electrons spin, and each…
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The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you…
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was…
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Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous,…
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the…
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the…
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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