Home > Work > State of Fear
41 " Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution. "
― Michael Crichton , State of Fear
42 " The exploitations he had found so profitable he now attacked with the money he had made from them. He "
43 " So what you have,” Kenner said, “is a history of ignorant, incompetent, and disastrously intrusive intervention, followed by attempts to repair the intervention, followed by attempts to repair the damage caused by the repairs, as "
44 " This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another—and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment they intended to protect. "
45 " The world is alive, Ted. Things are constantly in flux. Species are winning, losing, rising, falling, taking over, being pushed back. Merely setting aside wilderness doesn’t freeze it in its present state, any "
46 " Ted, have you ever stayed in a Third-World village? Even for one night? "
47 " Well, frankly, if you must know, yes. I do know better. I have the benefit of education and broader experience. And I know firsthand the dangers of industrial society and how it is making the whole world sick. So, yes, I think I do know what is best for them. Certainly "
48 " You don’t seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance. "
49 " Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature.” Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The "
50 " You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better? "
51 " Atmospheric carbon dioxide is increasing, and human activity is the probable cause. "
52 " The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don’t. "
53 " The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The "
54 " My point is, there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. Before "
55 " Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss. —GEORGE ORWELL "
56 " But as Alston Chase put it, “when the search for truth is confused with political "
57 " refurbished warehouse district below London’s "
58 " Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known. "
59 " Civilizația nu ne ÎNDEPĂRTEAZĂ de natură. Civilizația ne PROTEJEAZĂ de natură. "
60 " Then there is the speculative work of anthropologists like Helen Fisher, who claim to tell us about the origins of love or of infidelity or cooperation by reference to other societies, animal behavior, and the fossil record. How can she be wrong? These are untestable, unprovable stories. "