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Kim Stanley Robinson, né le 23 mars 1952 dans l'Illinois, est un auteur américain de romans et nouvelles de science-fiction. Il habite à Davis en Californie.

Il est principalement connu pour sa trilogie sur Mars et la terraformation de celle-ci : Mars la rouge, Mars la verte et Mars la bleue.

La quasi-totalité de son œuvre a déjà été traduite en français. Wikipedia  

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Kim Stanley Robinson: Citations en anglais

“This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing.”

Kim Stanley Robinson livre Galileo's Dream

Source: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354; note: though this statement is incorporated into the story as one Galileo spoke, it is actually a quotation of one he historically made in his Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kimler/hi322/Dialogue-extracts.html as translated by Stillman Drake.

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

Kim Stanley Robinson livre The Years of Rice and Salt

Book 2: "The Haj in the Heart", Ch. 5
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

“The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.”

Kim Stanley Robinson livre Galileo's Dream

Source: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354

“This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything.”

Kim Stanley Robinson livre Galileo's Dream

For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing.
Source: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354; note: though this statement is incorporated into the story as one Galileo spoke, it is actually a quotation of one he historically made in his Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kimler/hi322/Dialogue-extracts.html as translated by Stillman Drake.

“We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones.”

Kim Stanley Robinson livre The Years of Rice and Salt

Book 3: "Ocean Continents"
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

“We’ve moved beyond our ability to understand our technology.”

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 692)

“No—living on after the memory died was mere farce, pointless and awful.”

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 644)

“Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.”

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 603)

“Immigration worked as a time machine, bringing up little islands of the past into the present.”

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 598)

“It’s amazing what superstitions survive in fearful minds.”

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 10, “Werteswandel” (p. 462)

“A change in the form of government, why should that make a difference in the way he lived?”

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 381)

“Could politics ever be anything but politics, practical, cynical, compromised, ugly?”

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 363)

“Tourism is an ugly business, it’s not fit work for human beings. It’s hosting parasites.”

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 5, “Home At Last” (p. 239)

“Power is like matter, it has gravity, it clumps and then starts to draw more into itself.”

Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 4, “Green Earth” (p. 166)