The minute we look, we cease being afraid.
Story of our species, Malcolm said, laughing. Everybody knows it’s coming, but not so soon.
Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science c...
Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom...
Plants evolve like every other form of life, and they’ve come up with their own forms of aggression, defense, and so on. In the nineteenth century, most theories concerned animals—nature red in tooth...
People who imagined that life on earth consisted of animals moving against a green background seriously misunderstood what they were seeing. That green background was busily alive. Plants grew, moved,...
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your dai...
Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company....
Life will find its way
It isn’t a matter of wanting it or not, Malcolm said, eyes closed. He spoke slowly, through the drugs. It’s a matter of what you think you can accomplish. When the hunter goes out in the rain forest t...
How can you design for people if you don’t know history and psychology? You can’t. Because your mathematical formulas may be perfect, but the people will screw it up. And if that happens, it means you...
As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.
And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, yo...
And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.
A hotel loomed up like a first-order battleship from outer space. He saw two giants standing on a balcony, a man and a woman, holding drinks in their hands. His plane rushed toward them uncontrollably...
«Ma bisogna ammettere che queste non sono questioni banali. Viviamo in un mondo pieno di orride convenzioni. Si dà per scontato che ci si debba comportare in un determinato modo, che ci si debba curar...
You want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.
Will drive you. Her car, he knew, was parked on the other side of the Seine. It seemed far to walk. But he just nodded numbly. All right, he said. She was in no rush. They strolled arm in arm, like...
Then they had pollo con ajillo, chicken with garlic, and a bottle of portuguese red wine.my god, we’re going to stink after this, angela said.