Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.
Kim Stanley RobinsonAnd because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universeโits culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.
Kim Stanley RobinsonThe world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.
Kim Stanley RobinsonThe sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
Kim Stanley RobinsonAnyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful
Kim Stanley Robinson