You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
("Jurassic Park")
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And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.Michael Crichton
They told me not to move and I did what they said. I didn't move an inch, not with that gun pointed at my head.
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Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.
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I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing . . . I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports
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Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
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Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
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