Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.
Kim Stanley RobinsonWe dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
Kim Stanley RobinsonOne of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Kim Stanley RobinsonBeauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.
Kim Stanley RobinsonScience was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
Kim Stanley Robinson