Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 80)
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“But one had to trust instruments over instincts, that was science.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 70)
“Not everyone was as good at creation as they were at complaining.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 64)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 10, “Phase Change” (p. 579)
“Every generation is its own secret society.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 480)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 450)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 410)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 401)
“Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 395)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 391)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 387)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 370)
““Art is an optimist,” Nadia said to Maya as they walked on.
“Art is an idiot,” Maya replied.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 356)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 315)
“One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 296)
“Rituals should have some unpleasantness, or you don’t appreciate them properly.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 291)
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 4, “The Scientist as Hero” (p. 199)
“But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 127)
“In the random flux of universal contingency, nothing mattered; and yet, and yet...”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 125)
His listeners nodded unhappily.
“So everything is expanding. But it can’t happen in contradiction to the law of conservation of matter-energy. No matter how efficient your throughput is, you can’t get an output larger than the input.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 2, “The Ambassador” (pp. 76-77)