Welcome to Jurassic Park.
This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they’ll evolve very...
The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.
Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.
Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature. Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The
La actual preocupación casi histérica por la seguridad es en el mejor de los casos un derroche de recursos y un obstáculo para el espíritu humano, y en el peor de los casos una invitación al totalitar...
In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organization. States had governments. Corporations had CEOs. Schools had principals. Armies had generals. Hu...
G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), If you believe in nothing, you’ll believe in anything. That
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
Because extinction has always been a great mystery. It’s happened five major times on this planet, and not always because of an asteroid. Everyone’s interested in the Cretaceous die-out that killed th...
Because complex animals can evolve their behavior rapidly. Changes can occur very quickly. Human beings are transforming the planet, and nobody knows whether it’s a dangerous development or not. So th...
A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts igno...
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
Theoretician, his reputation secured in probability-density functions
The truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.
This wild animal must be different. By the way, he said, turning to Grant, if they’re all born females, how do they breed? You never explained that bit about the frog DNA. It’s not frog DNA, Grant sai...
This may be why Einstein once said; Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities...
They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez and the encoraching darkness. Things were happening quickly; this person he h...
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.