# Quote — Kim Stanley Robinson, Galileo's Dream

> We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one ever knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

- 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: 280
- 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/we-all-have

## 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)