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12 quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson

This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. (April 2013) Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American science fiction writer, best known for his Mars trilogy. Robinson's work has been labeled by reviewers as "the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing".
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

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The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

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Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is... →

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We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can... →

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If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a... →

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You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You... →

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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.

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A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

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Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and... →

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Apocalyptic thinking happens on the left as well as on the right, and in environmentalism, that's a terrible approach to take. Because it... →

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

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Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize... →

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