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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Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight …
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand …
A credulous mind … finds most delight in believing strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass with him; but never regards those that are plain and feasible, for every man can believe such.
SAMUEL BUTLER, Characters (1667–1669)
— The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (31.9%)
It's been six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and …
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%)
