Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

To shine is better than to reflect.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

There's no such thing as an ex-marine.

You can't fight the whole world, and you can't keep fighting everyone in your own world. It's not about giving up, it's about letting go.

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

I know that sacrifices have to be made to play with good teams.

Be happy with who you are, and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself.

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

I'm an outdoors girl - I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers, hunting.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.