Quotes from book
Darwinia

Name: Darwinia
Author: Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson

Darwinia is a 1998 science fiction/alternate history novel by American-Canadian writer Robert Charles Wilson.

“I won’t put my ignorance on an altar and call it God.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 15 (p. 136)

“After a gaudy sunset that land became an immense, limitless darkness. Too large, Guilford thought, too empty, and too plain a token of the indifferent machinery of God.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 8 (p. 80)

“The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 25 (p. 209)

“He was as alone as he had ever been, frighteningly alone, in a borderless land of shaded forests and rocky, abyssal gorges. But that was all right. He didn’t much mind being alone. It was what happened when people were around that worried him.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 24 (p. 195)

“Guilford thought he knew what science was. It was nothing more than curiosity…tempered by humility, disciplined with patience.
Science meant looking—a special kind of looking. Looking especially hard at the things you didn’t understand. Looking at the stars, say, and not fearing them, not worshiping them, just asking questions, finding the question that would unlock the door to the next question and the question beyond that.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Prologue (pp. 10-11)
Darwinia (1998)

“I gather we’re not the most craven species in the galaxy, but we’re not the most angelic by a long shot.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 25 (p. 211)

“A lot of people have made political careers out of religious piety and the fear of foreigners, but that won’t last. Not enough foreigners or miracles to sustain the crisis.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 7 (p. 77)

““Maybe you were better off not knowing.”
“Ignorance is not bliss.””

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 29 (p. 245)

“Last week the doctor at the Tilson Rural Clinic had shown him his X-rays, the too-easy-to-interpret shadows on his liver and lungs. Guilford had declined an offer of surgery and and last-gasp radiation therapy. This horse was too old to beat.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Epilogue (p. 316)
Darwinia (1998)

“He hated the idea of eulogizing himself. Some tasks are best left to others, surely including obituaries.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Epilogue (p. 318)
Darwinia (1998)

“But really, who do you think we’re working for? Not some Sunday school god, not the proverbial loving shepherd. The shoving leopard, more like.”

Robert Charles Wilson book Darwinia

Source: Darwinia (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 174)

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