Hammond shook his head sadly. Yet, you’ll remember, he said, the original genetic engineering companies, like Genentech and Cetus, were all started to make pharmaceuticals. New drugs for mankind. Nobl...
Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!
Well, Harry said, look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space, and you came upon one of our communication satellites, in orbit around the Earth. You would think, W...
Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.
Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.
My point is, there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. Before
There was no objective truth, only the truth that’s established by power.
If you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.
Thirty thousand years ago; when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could pla...
They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process. That just ain't possible.
It’s marked as an object, Wu said. In computer terminology, an object was a block of code that could be moved around and used, the way you might move a chair in a room.
I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and the scientist is trying to elucidate the hidden order in our reality. And that impul...
Geniuses never pay attention.
At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
يردد أهل الشمال مثلا شعبيا يقول : انظر خلفك وهم يعتقدون بأن على كل انسان أن يكون مهيئا دائما لان يدافع عن نفسه
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. I
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