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Sylvain Neuvel QUOTES

21 " Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they’ve been told was true. Scientists are no different; they’ve just been told a lot more things. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

22 " I hate this world. People are small. They’re ignorant, and they’re happy to stay that way. They make an effort to. They’ll spend time and energy finding ways not to learn things just to feel comfortable with their beliefs. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

23 " The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

24 " People often confuse leadership with managerial skills. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

25 " I never understood why people use words they do not understand. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

26 " I was smart enough to know it was wrong, but not brave enough to stop them. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

27 " People are denying even the most basic scientific facts because it makes them feel better about hurting each other. Do you realize how horrifying that is? We’re talking about human beings making a conscious effort, going out of their way, to be ignorant. Willfully stupid. They’re proud of it. They take pride in idiocy. There’s not even an attempt to rationalize things anymore. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

28 " North Korean troops gathering… inside North Korea.
That is unheard of."

"They were massing very close to the border."

"North Korea is the size of Ohio. It would be geographically challenging for them to gather very far from the border. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

29 " She has more issues than the New York Times. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

30 " Perhaps, deep down inside that rugged shell of yours, there is a little girl desperately waiting for her Prince Charming to propose."

"Of course there is. Only until now, I'd been pretty successful at keeping that little brat's mouth shut. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

31 " Scientists are like children: They always want to know everything, they all ask too many questions, and they never follow orders to the letter. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

32 " I thought something bad might have happened to him. It's nice to know he just doesn't want to talk to me. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

33 " When faced with a choice, humans almost invariably seek a no-action, no-change option, even when one of the presented alternatives is quantifiably and logically more advantageous. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , The Test

34 " It does not matter. You train your soldiers to kill using video games. They blow enough people up on their computer and it becomes easier for them to kill with a real weapon. Why do you think your government funds so many war and terrorism movies? Hollywood does your dirty work for you. Had 9/11 happened twenty years earlier, the country would have been in chaos, but people have seen enough bad things on their television screen to prepare them for just about anything. We do not really need to talk about government conspiracies. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

35 " What I am is very much a function of what I am not. If the "other" is the Muslim world, then I am the Judeo-Christian world. IF the other is from thousands of light-years away, I am simply human. Redefine alterity and you can erase boundaries. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

36 " If you see something wrong with the world, fix it. But what if it’s the whole world that needs fixing? "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Only Human (Themis Files, #3)

37 " While I am reasonably confident you are not “the chosen one,” you are without doubt one who has been chosen. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

38 " System justification is the idea that many of our needs can be satisfied by defending and justifying the status quo. It gives stability to our political and economic systems because people are inherently inclined to defend it. It prevents people at a disadvantage from questioning the system that disadvantages them, makes people buy the inevitability of social inequity, ignore or support policies that hurt them. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , The Test

39 " I may believe in God, but I’m at war with Him. I’m a scientist, I try to answer questions, one at a time, so there’s a little less room for Him as the answer. I plant my flag, and inch by inch, I take away His kingdom. It’s odd, but none of this has ever occurred to me before. I never even saw a real contradiction between science and religion. I see it now, I see it clear as day. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Waking Gods (Themis Files, #2)

40 " There’s this tendency for people to see any fight against the system as a fight for progress. As if the people before them couldn’t possibly have gotten anything right. If you’re using bombs instead of words, that means you’re banking on people giving you what you want out of fear instead of reason. That’s never a good sign. "

― Sylvain Neuvel , Only Human (Themis Files, #3)