It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
How many raptors are there? she said. I couldn’t tell for sure, when I saw them. I thought nine. I think there’s more, Malcolm said. I think eleven or twelve in all. Twelve? she said, glancing up at h...
Ellie said, Isn't it a little warm for black?You're extremely pretty, Dr. Sattler, he said. I could look at your legs all day. But no, as a matter of fact, black is an excellent color for heat. If you...
But then, things never turn out the way you think they will.
Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity of the body, the defense of women, the sanctity of true lov...
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...
If you don’t understand something, you can’t approximate it. You’re really just guessing.
Fringe. He smiled. ‘All things
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. —MARK TWAIN
The kids were probably with Grant. And if Grant was out in the park, well … what better person to get them safely through Jurassic Park than a dinosaur expert?
Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn’t true. It is an idle boast. As foolish, and as misguided, as the child who jumps off...
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.
Pierce himself later said, It is the demeanor which is respected among these people. They know the look of fear, and likewise its absence, and any man who is not afraid makes them afraid in turn.
No one escapes from life alive.
My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human beings live in vast urban environments, surrounded by other human beings and the...
It seemed to him that a society in which the most common prescription drug was Valium was, by definition, a society with unsolved problems.
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.
En el mundo moderno se considera más grave matar a un tigre que a tus padres. Los tigres tienen abogados.