The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

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

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

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.

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

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

Social control is best managed through fear.

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.

The light shines in our hearts and our lives.

For god sake to live in awesome, cool place you should have rules in your right hand and on the left hand you should have a program which can run based on this rules.

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

I've never considered myself to be working for a living; I've enjoyed myself for a living instead.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

Thanks,” I say, and Finn looks uncomfortable. Mum used to say he was like a faerie; he didn't like to be thanked. I add, “Sorry.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.