False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.
Every human society expends tremendous time and energy teaching its children the right way to behave. You look at a simpler society, in the rain forest somewhere, and you find that every child is born...
Even if you don’t believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.
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...
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.
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 treats the behavior of a whole system like a drop of water moving on a complicated propeller surface. The drop may spiral down, or slip outward toward the edge. It may do many different t...
But they’re not real now, Wu said. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. There isn’t any reality here.
But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more. Science has attained so much power that...
But if planting deadly ferns at poolside was any indication, then it was clear that the designers of Jurassic Park had not been as careful as they should have been.
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adap...
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
Because raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It’s the most important thing that happens, and it’s the culmination of all the tools and language and social...
Así comenzó todo: unos simios corrientes asomándose sobre la hierba.
Animals die, friends die, and I shall die, but one thing never dies, and that is the reputation we leave behind at our death.
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.
All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.
No te preocupes -dijo Sarah-. Ya pensaremos en algo.-Siempre contestas lo mismo -observó Kelly.-Porque siempre es la verdad -repuso Sarah
The waiter came, bringing the second course, pollo con ajillo, chicken with garlic. they would both stink frightfully when they were through, miss shaw thought; she would have to remember to buy some...