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Kim Stanley Robinson é um autor de ficção científica norte-americano. Especialmente conhecido pela Trilogia de Marte, galardoada com dois prêmios Hugo, dois Locus, Nebula, British SF, dois Ignotus e um Seiun, sua obra tem explorado a "última fronteira" da Terra na Antárctida e um futuro pós-nuclear em sua trilogia Three Californias. Na actualidade, vive em Davis, Califórnia, com sua mulher e seus dois filhos. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Março 1952
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Kim Stanley Robinson: Frases em inglês

“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.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson livro Galileo's Dream

Fonte: 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.

“The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson livro The Years of Rice and Salt

Book 9: "Nsara", § 5
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

“There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson livro Galileo's Dream

Fonte: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 13, p. 282

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

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Kim Stanley Robinson livro 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.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson livro Galileo's Dream

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

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

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Kim Stanley Robinson livro 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.
Fonte: 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.

“You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.”

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Kim Stanley Robinson livro Green Mars

Coyote
Green Mars (1993)

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

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Kim Stanley Robinson livro The Years of Rice and Salt

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

“It’s a sorry excuse for a government anyway. It always gets back to the same old thing, power suckers sucking power.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 750)

“Anytime you have to threaten people to get them to laugh at your joke you have to consider it less than successful, okay?”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (p. 748)

“People in the streets, that’s the only thing governments are afraid of. Well, or term limits. Or free elections! Or assassination. Or being laughed at, ah, ha-ha-ha!”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 14, “Phoenix Lake” (pp. 746-747)

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

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

“Science was a social construct, but it was also and most importantly its own space, conforming to reality only; that was its beauty. Truth is beauty, as the poet had said, speaking of science. And it was; the poet had been right”

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they weren’t always
Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 13, “Experimental Procedures” (p. 657)

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

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

“One could not overshoot a planet’s carrying capacity without disaster following—that was what Earth’s history since the nineteenth century existed to prove.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 621)

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

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Fonte: 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.”

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

“Why were the good days always so short? Moment to moment, day by day—each so full, and oh so lovely—and then gone forever, gone before there was a chance to absorb them properly, to really live them.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 566)

“The triviality of the current scene usually put her off, but now she supposed that the politics of the moment always looked petty and stupid; only later did it take on the look of respectable statecraft, of immutable History.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 563)

“Dominance hierarchies had underlain every system ever realized so far, but at the same time democratic values had been always a hope and a goal, expressed in every primate’s sense of self, and resentment of hierarchies that after all had to be imposed, by force.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 11, “Viriditas” (p. 483)

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

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

“Politics in its most common form: complaint. No one wanted to do it but everyone was happy to complain about it.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 9, “Natural History” (p. 433)

“Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to happen, then the sense to recognize it, and the courage to act. Few could be expected to have all that, and then to have things go well. The rest had to make do.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 393)

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

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

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

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Fonte: 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.”

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Fonte: 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.”

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

“You must be very scrupulous not to gather power in to the center just because you can do it. Power corrupts, that’s the basic law of politics. Maybe the only law.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (p. 156)

“After every revolution there is an interregnum, in which communities run themselves and all is well, and then the new regime comes in and screws things up.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (p. 156)

“People claiming that some fundamental right is foreign to their culture—that stinks no matter who says it, fundamentalists, patriarchs, Leninists, metanats, I don’t care who. They aren’t going to get away with it here, not if I can help it.”

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Fonte: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 3, “A New Constitution” (pp. 128-129)