269 Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face, Muhammad's wife Khadijeh never wore the veil, nor did the other wives of the Prophet after Khadijeh died. [...] The ulema have twisted the Quran with their hadith, always twisting it toward those in power, until the message Muhammad laid out so clearly, straight from God, has been reversed, and good Muslim women are made like slaves again, or worse.

What we need is equality without conformity.

Not that it would be wasting my time to chat in a bar with a good-looking woman, obviously, but I wanted to know as much as possible going in, because under the impact of a woman’s direct gaze I am likely to suffer a mind wipe.

They were going their separate ways, splintered by their beliefs, and even after two separate years of enforced togetherness they were, like any other human group, no more than a collection of strangers. The die was cast.

It’s the love of right lures men to wrong.

The urge to excel and the urge to lead aren’t the same. Sometimes I think they may be opposites.