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We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we're told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine perceptions of reality. In short, our struggle to determine what is true is the struggle to decide which of our perceptions are genuine, and which are false because they are handed down, or sold to us, or generated by our own hopes and fears. (Michael Crichton)
Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious. View quote
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Welcome... to Jurassic Park! View quote
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You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school. View quote
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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. View quote
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Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego. View quote
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This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't. View quote
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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. View quote
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In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell. View quote
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I want to mention in passing that punditry has undergone a subtle change over the years. View quote
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Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and merits universal acceptance - only if it can be independently verified. (Michael Crichton)
Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. View quote
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The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. View quote
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Most of us have had some experience interacting with religious fundamentalists, and we understand that one of the problems with fundamentalists is that they have no perspective on themselves. They never recognize that their way of thinking is just one of many other possible ways of thinking, which may be equally useful or good. View quote
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This is politicking, not predicting. View quote
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I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. View quote
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Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge. View quote
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Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. View quote
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Ian Malcolm, how do you do? I do maths. View quote
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Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution. View quote
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I want to state emphatically that nothing in my remarks should be taken to imply that we can ignore our environment, or that we should not take climate change seriously. (Michael Crichton)
But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion. View quote
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We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. View quote
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence. View quote
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Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. View quote
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