Mars Trilogy Quotes

“Strange how one remembered faces until you tried to look at them in your mind, when they turned away from you.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars Trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars

“And yet the whole meaning of the universe, its beauty, is contained in the consciousness of intelligent life. We are the consciousness of the universe, and our job is to spread that around, to go look at things, to live everywhere we can. It’s too dangerous to keep the consciousness of the universe on only one planet, it could be wiped out.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars Trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars

“There is this about the human mind - if it can be done, it will be done.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars Trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars

“The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims, with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgement on what they think of X and Y.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars Trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars