So what you have, Kenner said, is a history of ignorant, incompetent, and disastrously intrusive intervention, followed by attempts to repair the intervention, followed by attempts to repair the damag...
Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow i...
Professor Johnston often said that 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.
Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.
Power is neither male or female.
Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won’t use it unwisely. So that...
Multi-XMP? You mean more than one Cray?
It seemed to him that a society in which the most common prescription drug was Valium was, by definition, a society with unsolved problems.
It is an absurd expression of romantic hope.
Isn’t it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.
Is this what happened to the dinosaurs? Is this the true cause of their disappearance? We may never know. But it is no accident that human beings are so interested in dinosaur extinction. The decline...
I do so think well of a man who dies with finesse.
Hammond turned to Gennaro. You know, of course, what Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler do. They are paleontologists. They dig up dinosaurs. And then he began to laugh, as if he found the idea very funny.
God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
Algunos analistas de medios de comunicación han advertido que en los informativos de hoy en día no se comprueba nada de nada. Se redacta la noticia y se busca una nueva, afirma un periodista. Otro col...
In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be a mere observer.
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discov...
The information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.
You know you can’t expect to observe the animals without changing anything. It’s a scientific impossibility. Of course it is, Malcolm said. That’s the greatest single scientific discovery of the twent...
You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.