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Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

Field is two million times greater than the strength

The spider venom was Ebola in thirty seconds.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.

Or maybe they're weird. Maybe dinosaurs are weird.

Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Too much change is as destructive as too little. Only at the edge of chaos can complex systems flourish.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can't worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half

The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed.

Malcolm said, You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Ted, have you ever stayed in a Third-World village? Even for one night?

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

refurbished warehouse district below London's

Story of our species," Malcolm said, laughing. "Everybody knows it's coming, but not so soon.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

We have been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we are gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

theoretician, his reputation secured in probability-density functions

Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

Life will find its way

Multi-XMP? You mean more than one Cray?

My point is, there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. Before

The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

Crocodiles are basically Triassic animals living in the present. Sharks are Triassic. So we know it has happened before.

The DNA molecule was so old that its evolution had essentially finished more than two billion years ago.

About all we can hope to do is blow them apart.

Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature." Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The

Yet I have discovered that if all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief ...

The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.

What don't you care about?"
"Anything," Malcolm said. "Because ... everything looks different ... on the other side."
And he smiled.

But they're not real now," Wu said. "That's what I'm trying to tell you. There isn't any reality here.

It is an absurd expression of romantic hope.

But as Alston Chase put it, when the search for truth is confused with political

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

That dosent look dangerous it looks like a giant chiken.

Your business is not hardware. Your business is communications. Your business is access to information.

Eugenics research was funded by the Carnegie Foundation, and later by the Rockefeller Foundation. The

Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.

You must first learn patience, if you wish to learn anything at all.

You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?

Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler ... Welcome to Jurassic Park.

You don't seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

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.

All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.

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Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.

Do not think ahead, and be cheerful by knowing that no man lives forever.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Theories are just fantasies. And they change.

The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

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Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

but one never really understood life in the New World until confronted with the actual rude experience.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.

Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

Life will find a way.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), "If you believe in nothing, you'll believe in anything." That

They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

You arrogant little snot (John Hammond)

They were seduced by their own technology.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.