Kim Stanley Robinson

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#change #inspirational #change

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#development #formative-years #maturity #memory #age

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#scientists #science

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#dreams #knowledge #learning #dreams

You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated. "Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head! ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#religion #faith

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#intelligence #intelligence

You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#intelligence

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#vitality #wisdom #youth #age

It's the love of right lures men to wrong. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#love

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#inspirational