Dr. Malcolm, Hammond explained, is a man of strong opinions. And mad as a hatter, Malcolm said cheerfully. But you must admit, these are nontrivial issues. We live in a world of frightful givens. It i...
Clearly, Valdez was an apologist for the industrialists and polluters, the big American companies that dominated Costa Rica and other Latin American countries. Not surprising to find such a person her...
Chaos theory describes nonlinear systems. It’s now become a very broad theory that’s been used to study everything from the stock market to heart rhythms. A very fashionable theory. Very trendy to app...
But they’re not real now, Wu said. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. There isn’t any reality here.
Así comenzó todo: unos simios corrientes asomándose sobre la hierba.
And to imagine all these things happen purely by chance is like imagining that a tornado can hit a junkyard and assemble the parts into a working 747 airplane. It’s very hard to believe.
And Kelly was beginning to see that Sarah didn’t let anything stop her, she just went and did it. This whole attitude of not letting other people stop you, of believing that you could do what you want...
All right, Malcolm said. Let’s go back to the beginning. He paused, staring at the ceiling. Physics has had great success at describing certain kinds of behavior: planets in orbit, spacecraft going to...
After every major environmental change, a wave of extinctions has usually followed—but not right away. Extinctions only occur thousands, or millions of years later. Take the last glaciation in North A...
No te preocupes -dijo Sarah-. Ya pensaremos en algo.-Siempre contestas lo mismo -observó Kelly.-Porque siempre es la verdad -repuso Sarah
This attempt to control … We are talking about Western attitudes that are five hundred years old. They began at the time when Florence, Italy, was the most important city in the world. The basic idea...
But one thing above all—one reason stands out—we need the gods to protect us from loneliness. But why is loneliness so intolerable? We can’t stand to be alone—why not? Because human beings are childre...
Based on UN statistics, is that before the DDT ban, malaria had become almost a minor illness. Fifty thousand deaths a year worldwide. A few years later, it was once again a global scourge. Fifty mill...
You must first learn patience, if you wish to learn anything at all.
You know what’s wrong with scientific power? Malcolm said. It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. It never fails. Hammond
You can make a boat, but you can't make the ocean. You can make an airplane, but you can't make the air. Your powers are much less than your dreams of reason would have you believe.
When the first giant bones were found in the 1820s and 1830s, scientists felt obliged to explain the bones as belonging to some oversize variant of a modern species. This was because it was believed t...
When America was a new country, people believed in something called phlogiston. You know what that is? No? Well, it doesn’t matter, because it wasn’t real anyway. They also believed that four humors c...
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. ALBERT EINSTEIN
Used to be - in the old days - the media image roughly corresponded to reality. But now it's all reversed. The media image is the reality, and by comparison day-to-day life seems to lack excitement. S...