Stanley Robinson
Stanley Robinson
Stanley Robinsonis an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Leones de Quilpué of the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol de Chile. He primarily plays the small forward position but occasionally assumes the role of a power forward as well...
rocks ideas
Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
order differences expanding-universe
In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.
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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.
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Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.
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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.
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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.
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You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.
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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.