What is it about nature that is so terrifying to the modern mind? Why is it so intolerable? Because nature is fundamentally indifferent. It’s unforgiving, uninterested. If you live or die, succeed or...
What don't you care about?
Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong.
Welcome to Jurassic Park.
We have been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we are gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. Those environments are changing.
Wait, Lex said. You’re confusing it.… Will you shut up! You don’t know anything about computers!
Unable to construct genuine nanoassemblers, Xymos was using bacteria to crank out their molecules. This was genetic engineering, not nanotechnology.
Tim watched until he was sure the velociraptor was coming toward the kitchen. Was it following their scent? All the books said dinosaurs had a poor sense of smell, but this one seemed to do just fine....
This is precisely the kind of critical turnabout that has always frustrated and infuriated architects. No less a figure than Sir Christopher Wren, writing tow hundred years earlier, complained that th...
They have to stick their instruments in. They have to leave their mark. They can’t just watch. They can’t just appreciate. They can’t just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnat...
They got my glove, Lex said. My Darryl Strawberry special. They started walking again. Tim put his arm around her shoulders. Are you all right? Of course, stupid, she said, shaking him off. She looked...
They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.'And?'Chaos theory th...
There were several monitors, all running so fast it was hard to see what they were showing. Wu pushed a button and slowed one image. Here you see the actual structure of a small fragment of dinosaur D...
Then are you working with the entire DNA strand? Grant asked. Oh no, Wu said. That’s impossible. We’ve come a long way from the sixties, when it took a whole laboratory four years to decode a screen l...
The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ig...
The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven’t got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.
The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics …...
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.