Uno no viene a un sitio lleno de pollos venenosos si no está seguro de que los vehículos responderán.
They just posture and pontificate. Nobody tests. Nobody does field research. Nobody dares to solve the problems—because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to b...
They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
The ultimate lesson is that science isn’t special – at least not anymore. Maybe back when Einstein talked to Niels Bohr, and there were only a few dozen important workers in every field. But there are...
The reason I ask, Malcolm said, is that I’m told large predators such as lions and tigers are not born man-eaters. Isn’t that true? These animals must learn somewhere along the way that human beings a...
The Thematic Apperception Test was a psychological test that consisted of a series of ambiguous pictures. Subjects were supposed to tell what they thought was happening in the pictures. Since no clear...
Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something. They conveniently define such conside...
Saben lo que están haciendo. Hay máquinas por doquier. Antes servían al hombre, pero ahora empiezan a dominarle. Muy sutilmente, pero pronto lo lograrán.-Harry Benson
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 structu...
No, my point is that life on earth can take of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years is a long year. A hundred years ago, we didn't have cars and airplanes and computers and vaccin...
Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has pu...
Los seres humanos nunca piensan por su cuenta, les resulta incómodo. En general, los miembros de nuestra especie se limitan a repetir lo que oyen y se desconciertan ante cualquier punto de vista.
Look, this island is an attempt to re-create a natural environment from the past. To make an isolated world where extinct creatures roam freely. Correct? Yes. But from my point of view, such an undert...
Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.
It's not a matter of wanting it or not, it's a matter of what you think you can accomplish. When the hunter goes out in the rain forest to seek food for his family, does he expect to control nature? N...
Isla Nublar, Hammond explained, was not a true island. Rather, it was a seamount, a volcanic upthrusting of rock from the ocean floor. Its volcanic origins can be seen all over the island, Hammond sai...
In the past, pure scientists took a snobbish view of business. They saw the pursuit of money as intellectually uninteresting, suited only to shopkeepers. And
In evolutionary theory, this is called the Red Queen phenomenon, Malcolm said. Because in Alice in Wonderland the Red Queen tells Alice she has to run as fast as she can just to stay where she is. Tha...
In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around memories, our cultures are built upon the foundation of shared me...
Imaginar que todo esto puede ocurrir por azar es como imaginar que un tornado puede arremeter contra un depósito de chatarra y formar con las piezas un Boeing 747 en perfecto estado.