46 quotes
I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind.
State of Fear (2004)
This is politicking, not predicting.
In a sense that is a part of the training: surgeons are lonely men.
A Case of Need (1968)
Whatever I am doing, I wish I were doing one of the other things.
Egypt imbued the view with a heavy sense of mystery and foreboding.
Easy Go (1967)
Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory.
A Case of Need (1968)
Things do not turn out the way you think they will.
Prey (2002)
"In the conservative region far from the chaotic edge, individual elements coalesce slowly, showing no clear pattern." - Ian Malcolm
The Lost World (1995)
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism.
Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.
What is the dominant motive experience at the end of the twentieth century? How do people see things, and how do they expect to see things? The answer is simple. In every field, from business to politics to marketing to education, the dominant mode has become entertainment.
Timeline (1999)
In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
What is clear, however, is that on this issue [global warming], science and policy have become inextricably mixed to the point where it will be difficult, if not impossible, to separate them out.
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Mere talk makes drama and spectacle unlikely — unless the talk becomes heated and excessive. So it becomes excessive. Not every show features the Crossfire-style food-fight, but it is a tendency on all shows.
State of Fear (2004)
They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. I hope it's not. We might get lucky.
Prey (2002)
In the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion. … The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification — framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will demand that you adapt to it — and if you don't, you die.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials—people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it.
Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.
Timeline (1999)