Jennie understands love. Yes, murmured Mrs. Archibald, she knows what love is. I said: then she can understand religion, because religion starts with love. Religion is love. Without first loving God a...
In five days, lidar had accomplished seven times more than the Chases had achieved in twenty-five years.
If you’re honest with yourself, you can still feel the terrible weight of time pressing on you; that awful, relentless, bodily corruption that is happening constantly to us all.
And what better place to sow vengeance—to, quite literally, turn Gotham into a City of Endless Night?
There was no reason why having a high iq would somehow protect you from the vicissitudes of life
Son of Stefano Mele and Barbara Locci, who was sleeping in the backseat of the car and who witnessed his mother’s murder at age six.
Imprecation
You see, what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our questioning. And what we are, of course, is a response to what we observe.
What was that line of Sophocles from Oedipus Rex? How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.
To most people, Metcalf had discovered, silence was even more unbearable than pointed questioning.
This was a big divergence from the way human children learn language, and that itself was interesting.
There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.
There can be no doubt: life is a miraculous thing, and even more miraculous is human intelligence. Our world, this earth, is a surpassingly beautiful place, perfectly suited to our needs. It is as if...
There are only a few really high-profile archaeological cultures in the world: Egypt and the Maya.
The twentieth century showed us the evil face of physics. This century will show us the evil face of biology.
That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a picture of the die-off that is truly apocalyptic;...
Sen. Proxmire, the watchdog of the scientific community, has tracked down and reported taxpayer-financed scientific research that is redundant, unnecessary, or just plain silly. Those projects that re...
Resistance would be futile, and futility itself was, of course, to be resisted.
Project The Forgotten Room Impact The Third Gate The Monster of Florence Terminal Freeze (with Mario Spezi) Deep Storm
People need history in order to know themselves,