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Kim Stanley Robinson
American
Writer
Born:
Mar 23
,
1952
Care
People
Predict
Science
Think
You
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The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.
Kim Stanley Robinson
People
Argument
Matters
Think
Only
Arguing
Part
Really
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Kim Stanley Robinson
You
Police
Protection
Anarchist
Libertarians
Want
Who
Slaves
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
Kim Stanley Robinson
You
People
Idiot
At Least One
Without
Least
Five
Than
Get
Any
Movement
Including
Larger
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
Time
Health
Cooking
Care
Edge
Our
Our Time
Also
Health Care
Ironies
Planet
Serious
Right
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 screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Work
Trust
Earth
Rulers
Ourselves
Given
Highly
Powerful
Conceive
Well
Make
Stewards
Up
Screw
Us
Should
Conscious
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 are trying to take a different perspective on now.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Future
You
Science
Perspective
Predict
Out
Something
Properly
Write
Take
Never
Science Fiction
Doing
Trying
Different
Fiction
Little
Really
Turns
Different Perspective
Now
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
You
Science
Quality
People
Digging
Out
Rarely
Seeing
Slowness
About
Sort
Science Fiction
Conclusions
Making
Real
Doing
Scientists
Rocks
Trying
Getting
Fiction
Justifies
Then
Convince
Amongst
Tedious
Vagueness
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