269 Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and the sun, and when they had a choice, they sat in boxes and stared at littler boxes, just as if they had no choice-as if they were in a space station-

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.

There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in front of us. You have to have enough food to get through winter and spring. That's what it all comes down to. You have to live in a way that will gather enough food each fall to get through winter.

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

I believe that Man is good. I believe that we stand at the dawn of a century that will be more peaceful and prosperous than any in history.

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

I say I do not wish to be counted as an ignoramus and an ingrate toward Nature and toward God. For if they have given me my senses and my reason, why should I defer such great gifts to the errors of some mere man? Why should I believe blindly and stupidly what I wish to believe, and subject the freedom of my intellect to someone else who is just as liable to error as I am?