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Kim Stanley Robinson – amerykański pisarz science fiction, znany z wielokrotnie nagradzanej trylogii marsjańskiej. Od początku swojej kariery spotykał się z szerokim uznaniem czytelników i krytyków. Jest uważany za jednego z czołowych żyjących twórców amerykańskiej literatury fantastyczno naukowej.

W swojej twórczości często sięga po tematykę ekologiczną i socjologiczną. Wiele z jego powieści wydaje się być skutkiem osobistych zainteresowań, na przykład jego najsłynniejszy cykl był owocem wieloletniej fascynacji Marsem i 15-letniego okresu badań na jego temat. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Marzec 1952
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Kim Stanley Robinson cytaty

„Religia jest jak domek z kart, wystarczy dotknąć pewnych faktów, aby cała konstrukcja legła w gruzach.”

Kim Stanley Robinson książka Lata ryżu i soli

Źródło: Lata ryżu i soli (2002), tłum. Łukasz Tabaka

O religii

Kim Stanley Robinson: Cytaty po angielsku

“Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.”

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Źródło: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 80)

“But one had to trust instruments over instincts, that was science.”

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Źródło: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 70)

“Not everyone was as good at creation as they were at complaining.”

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Źródło: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 2, “Areophany” (p. 64)

“Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 10, “Phase Change” (p. 579)

“Every generation is its own secret society.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 480)

“Conspiracy theory was tremendously popular, always and forever. People wanted such catastrophes to mean something more than mere individual madness, and so the hunt was on.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 9, “The Spur of the Moment” (p. 450)

“If enough data points trouble the theory, the theory may be wrong. If the theory is basic, the paradigm may have to change.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 410)

“You conceive of science as nothing more than answers to questions?
As a system for generating answers.
And what is the purpose of that?
...To know.
And what will you do with your knowledge?
...Find out more.
But why?
I don’t know. It’s the way I am.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 8, “Social Engineering” (p. 401)

“Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 395)

“Anyone can agree that things should be fair, and the world just. The way to get there is always the real problem.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 391)

“When she realized what she was doing she snorted in disgust, at herself and at the pervasiveness of politics—how it could infect everything if you let it.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 387)

“Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you still have to argue it point by point. Especially since most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That’s libertarians for you—anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: 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.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 356)

“The resistance begins fighting itself, because that’s the only thing it can beat. Happens every time. You can’t get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 315)

“One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 296)

“Rituals should have some unpleasantness, or you don’t appreciate them properly.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 291)

“No step along the way had seemed more than a little thing; but altogether it came to something rather monstrous.”

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Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 4, “The Scientist as Hero” (p. 199)

“But nothing lasts, not even stone, not even despair.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 127)

“In the random flux of universal contingency, nothing mattered; and yet, and yet...”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 125)

“Continuous expansion is a fundamental tenet of economics. Therefore one of the fundamentals of the universe itself. Because everything is economics. Physics is cosmic economics, biology is cellular economics, the humanities are social economics, psychology is mental economics, and so on.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

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.”
Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 2, “The Ambassador” (pp. 76-77)

“Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson książka Green Mars

Źródło: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 1, “Areoformation” (p. 35)

“How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?”

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Źródło: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 7, “Senzeni Na” (p. 526)

“It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.”

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Źródło: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 461)

“Some of them defined ideology as an imaginary relationship to a real situation.”

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Źródło: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 460)

“Friendship was just diplomacy by other means, after all.”

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Źródło: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 432)

“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”

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Źródło: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 431)

“It was a mistake to speak one’s mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. Best to strip all statements of real content, this was a basic law of diplomacy.”

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Źródło: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 418)

“Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.”

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Źródło: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 394)

“Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.”

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Źródło: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 375)

“Well, societies without a plan, that was history so far; but history so far had been a nightmare, a huge compendium of examples to be avoided.”

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Źródło: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 284)

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