# Quote — Kim Stanley Robinson, Galileo's Dream

> There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.

- Author: [Kim Stanley Robinson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson.md)
- Book: [Galileo's Dream](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream.md)
- Page: 282
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kim_Stanley_Robinson#Galileo's_Dream_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream/there-was-nothing

## More from this book

> One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

p. 295 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream/one-of-the.md)

> The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

p. 354 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream/the-sky-itself.md)

> Yes. God makes the world using mathematics, and he has given us minds that can see it. We can discover the laws He used! It is a most beautiful thing to witness and understand! It's prayer. It's more than prayer, it's a sacrament, a kind of communion. An apprehension—an epiphany—it's seeing God, while still in this body and in this world! How blessed we are, to be able to experience God like that! Who would not devote their time to understanding more, to seeing deeper in God's manner of thinking about these things?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kim-stanley-robinson/galileos-dream/yes-god-makes.md)