...teaching was the most rigorous form of learning.
Kim Stanley RobinsonAnd in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.
Kim Stanley RobinsonStichwörter: friendship identity communication isolation
It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.
Kim Stanley RobinsonStichwörter: sadness sleep anxiety restlessness insomnia
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
Kim Stanley RobinsonStichwörter: disillusionment knowledge learning dreams
He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of 8.79 rem per hour. Several lifetimes of dentists’ X-rays, to be sure; but the radiation outside the storm shelter would have been a lethal dose, so they were getting off lightly. Still, the amount flying through the rest of the ship! Billions of particles were penetrating the ship and colliding with the atoms of water and metal they were huddled behind; hundreds of millions were flying between these atoms and then through the atoms of their bodies, touching nothing, as if they were no more than ghosts. Still, thousands were striking atoms of flesh and bone. Most of those collisions were harmless; but in all those thousands, there were in all probability one or two (or three?) in which a chromosome strand was taking a hit, and kinking in the wrong way: and there it was. Tumor initiation, begun with just that typo in the book of the self. And years later, unless the victim's DNA luckily repaired itself, the tumor promotion that was a more or less unavoidable part of living would have its effect, and there would appear a bloom of Something Else inside: cancer. Leukemia, most likely; and, most likely, death.
Kim Stanley RobinsonStichwörter: science science-fiction
It's the love of right lures men to wrong.
Kim Stanley RobinsonStichwörter: ethics-and-moral-philosophy
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
Kim Stanley RobinsonStichwörter: science philosophy behavior
In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental.
Kim Stanley RobinsonYou can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.
Kim Stanley RobinsonStichwörter: intelligence
The command to be free is a double bind
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