Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. —GEORGE ORWELL
Whoever you are, some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.
Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've read the reviews so that we know what to think. We lose the confidence to perce...
Today, everybody expects to be entertained, and they expect to be entertained all the time. Business meetings must be snappy, with bullet lists and animated graphics, so executives aren’t bored. Malls...
They’re engineers, she said. She was thinking, What did he expect? He must have dealt with engineers at GM. Emotionally, they’re all thirteen years old, stuck at the age just before boys stop playing...
They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't se...
There is no greater pleasure than to win what everyone desires
There are no pirates in Port Royal
There are many people, including myself, who are quite queasy about the consequences of this technology for the future. —K. Eric Drexler, 1992
The work of the late Heinz Pagels provoked Ian Malcolm.
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. For these same apes to imagine they can stabilize this atmosphere is arrogant beyond belief. They can’t cont...
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...
Pero la ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.
Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.
Like our padded cell? He poked the insulated walls. It's like living in a vagina.
In the modern world, it’s a much more serious transgression to shoot a tiger than to shoot your parents. Tigers have advocates.
Grant liked kids—it was impossible not to like any group so openly enthusiastic about dinosaurs. Grant used to watch kids in museums as they stared open-mouthed at the big skeletons rising above them....
Diego
As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off a building because he believes he can fly.