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Ким Стенли Робинсон ; — американский писатель-фантаст, возможно, наиболее известный своей Марсианской трилогией, удостоившейся нескольких премий, в том числе премий «Хьюго» и «Небьюла». Признается многими как один из величайших ныне живущих писателей, работающих в жанре научной фантастики. Wikipedia  

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

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

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

Источник: 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.”

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

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

“Every generation is its own secret society.”

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

Источник: 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.”

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

Источник: 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.”

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

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

““Art is an optimist,” Nadia said to Maya as they walked on.
“Art is an idiot,” Maya replied.”

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

Источник: 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.”

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

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

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

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

Источник: 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.”

Kim Stanley Robinson книга 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.”
Источник: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 2, “The Ambassador” (pp. 76-77)

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

Kim Stanley Robinson книга Green Mars

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Источник: 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.”

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