In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too.
In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the inevitability of unintended consequences...
El rasgo humano característico no es la conciencia sino el conformismo, y el resultado característico es la guerra religiosa. Otros animales luchan por el territorio o el alimento; los seres humanos,...
But absence of proof is not proof of absence.
A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll...
You arrogant little snot (John Hammond)
Thrumming
Refurbished warehouse district below London’s
Young Johnson Joins the Field Trip West
What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species...
To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
The Institute had explored the behavior of a great variety of complex systems—corporations in the marketplace, neurons in the human brain, enzyme cascades within a single cell, the group behavior of m...
The Five Deaths
Sleep with your guns tonight, boys.
On the contrary: the advantage of a role-reversal story is that it may enable us to examine aspects concealed by traditional responses and conventional rhetoric.
It is an absurd expression of romantic hope.
Because, if you didn’t know any physical chemistry, you could look at a crystal and ask all the same questions. You’d see those beautiful spars, those perfect geometric facets, and you could ask, What...
About all we can hope to do is blow them apart.