Escape From Kathmandu Quotes

“And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Escape From Kathmandu

“I sighed. “Freds, why am I here?” “To do good on this earth, George. That’s why we’re all here.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Escape from Kathmandu

“Theorists backstabbing each other over their pet ideas, and sounding just as scientific as they could, when it isn’t really scientific at all! You can’t test these theories by designing an experiment and looking for reproducibility, and you can’t isolate your factors or vary them, or use controls—it’s just observation and untestable hypothesis, over and over! And yet they acted like such solid scientists, math models and all, like chemists or something. It’s just scientism.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Escape from Kathmandu