I mostly read science and evidence-based non-fiction that fill in my understanding of the world.
I’m branching into fiction more and am hoping to find the niches that I enjoy. Hard science and adventure fiction like Jurassic Park and The Lost World are favorites. I think books that blend in realism and are somewhat believable might be my thing.
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The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great …
The authors make the case for design as its own culture of inquiry and action. They offer not a recipe …
The dinosaurs are back on earth--alive, now, in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.
The story, …
Excellent book! My only criticism is the long and didactic bouts of Ian Malcolm’s ramblings.
They’re part of his character (and quite different from Jeff Goldblum’s portrayal in the film—if that’s what you’re expecting), but they’re so protracted that they tend to derail the book’s momentum.
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand …
Those who have something to sell, those who wish to influence public opinion, those in power, a skeptic might suggest, have a vested interest in discouraging skepticism.
— The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (20.8%)
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand …
The whole idea of a democratic application of skepticism is that everyone should have the essential tools to effectively and constructively evaluate claims to knowledge.
All science asks is to employ the same levels of skepticism we use in buying a used car or in judging the quality of analgesics or beer from their television commercials.
— The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (19%)
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand …
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
— The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (6.7%)
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand …
It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.
(Quoted from Edmund Way Teale in his 1950 book Circle of the Seasons)
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand …
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth—scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books—might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism.
— The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (11%)
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand …
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us—and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, a world of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who saunters along.
— The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (11%)