Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001)[citation needed] was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances.
Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape
What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since
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.
Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.
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.
The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.
A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.
Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing robots too. They showed up and worked generation after generation; give them 3000 calories a day and a few amenities, a little time off, and a strong jolt of fear, and you could work them at almost anything. Give them some ameliorative drugs and you had a working class, reified and coglike.
Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.
We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).