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Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 85)

Arkady shook his head vehemently, causing him to spin a little in the air over the table. “No, no, no, no! History is not evolution! It is a false analogy! Evolution is a matter of environment and chance, acting over millions of years. But history is a matter of environment and choice, acting within lifetimes, and sometimes within years, or months, or days! History is Lamarckian! So that if we choose to establish certain institutions on Mars, there they will be! And if we choose others, there they will be!”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 88)

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 4, “Homesick” (p. 205)

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 4, “Homesick” (p. 221)

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 276)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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