They lived like monkeys still, while their new...... Quote by "Kim Stanley Robinson"

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
— Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars

Other Quotes by "Kim Stanley Robinson"

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.
— Kim Stanley Robinson

Tags: quality, people, you, science

That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also cooking the planet.
— Kim Stanley Robinson

Tags: care, cooking, time, health

Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it isn't true.
— Kim Stanley Robinson

Tags: well, right, true, thinking

Statistically it was not greatly different than it had been for previous generations, but anecdotally it had become so prominent that every problem was noticed and remarked. The cognitive error called ease of representation thrust them into a space where every problem they witnessed convinced them they were in an unprecedented colapse. They were getting depressed.
— Kim Stanley Robinson Aurora

Tags: society, science-fiction, science, pessimism, generation-ships

There are ecological, biological, sociological, and psychological problems that can never be solved to make this idea work. The physical problems of propulsion have capture your fancy, and perhaps they can be solved, but they are the easy ones.
— Kim Stanley Robinson Aurora

Tags: science-fiction, science, generation-ships