Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic?

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

Everything I had read in the fields of fiction and science led me to a single, dark conclusion. Humans are screwed, and so is our planet.

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse.

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age, ' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.

human urine is both nutrient-rich and an effective tooth whitener

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

Borrowed illusions are better than none.

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain.

Life is full of chances -- and those times when we each trust our own guts and have a terrific outcome reaffirms our ability to make good decisions.