Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.
Kim StanleyA lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.
Kim StanleyIt makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.
Kim Stanley