People Were So Naive About Plants, Ellie

Only Assholes Put A Nickname On Their Business Card.

...scientific Power Is Like Inherited Wealth: Attained Without Discipline. You Read What Others Have Done, And You Take The Next Step. You Can Do It Very Young...there Is No Mastery, Old Scientists Are Ignored. There Is No Humility Before Nature...its A Form Of Inherited Wealth. And You Know What Assholes Congenitally Rich People Are.

Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

In Other Centuries, Human Beings Wanted To Be Saved, Or Improved, Or Freed, Or Educated. But In Our Century, They Want To Be Entertained. The Great Fear Is Not Of Disease Or Death, But Of Boredom. A Sense Of Time On Our Hands, A Sense Of Nothing To Do. A Sense That We Are Not Amused.

In Our Modern Complex World, Fundamentalism Is Dangerous Because Of Its Rigidity And Its Imperviousness To Other Ideas.