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1 " Every mad scientist secretly dreams of playing God. "
― Mira Grant , Symbiont (Parasitology, #2)
2 " The big question of the hour is prett obvious: it's the question we've been asking every scientist from Galileo to Oppenheimer, from Frankenstein to Moreau. Do I feel like we at SymboGen are trying to play God?Well, there's a reason that two of the scientists I just named don't really exist. I think that mankind is constantly trying to play God: I would argue that playing God is exactly what God, if He exists, would want us to do. He didn't create thinking creatures with the intent that we would never think. That would be silly. He didn't create creatures that were capable of manipulating and remaking our environment with the intent that we would sit idle and never create anything. That would be a waste.If God exists― and I am reserving my final opinion on the matter until I die and meet Him― then He is a scientist, an by creating man, he was playing at being me for a little while. So I can't imagine that He would mind if I wanted to try putting the shoe on the other foot, can you? "
3 " Curiosity is what it looks like when you’re in love with the world. "
4 " Sometimes smart people can be a special kind of stupid. The kind where they know so many facts and are so good at saying “no one would ever do that” that they somehow manage to convince themselves the world is going to care about what they think. "
5 " None of my remedial education classes covered how to escape in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. "
6 " Mankind has been forgetting this simple fact since the dawn of time: when we transgress, it is our children who must pay the price of those transgressions. "
7 " Tansy had acted like a thug and reacted like a heroine, and if that wasn’t one of the best combinations I’d ever encountered, I didn’t know what was. "
8 " Impulse control problems don't usually come with a body count. "
9 " That’s the danger of genius. One way or another, it’s going to destroy the world. "
10 " Sometimes I wonder if this is how God felt. And then I wonder why He didn’t just let us all burn. –DR. RICHARD JABLONSKY "
11 " This was it: this was the moment where I would have to decide whether I wanted to be the girl I'd always been, or whether I was ready to become someone new. Someone who was brave enough to crawl into the dark alone, and see where the risk would take her. Someone who was going to survive. "
12 " No one’s ever come up with a universal color scheme for the apocalypse, and if ours wanted to come in neon and peppermint stripe, well. That was okay. "
13 " It smacked of mad science, and I should know, since I'm sort of a mad scientist's devastatingly beautiful daughter and all- or maybe just her devastating daughter, since I'm pretty good at the destruction thing- and mad science never ended well for the people who woke up in chains. "
14 " Boom boom pow, bitches. –TANSY (SUBJECT VIII, ITERATION II) "
15 " Dr. Banks and his team could have learned a lot from watching The Secret of NIMH a few times. Maybe it would have convinced them that modifying the genetic code of living organisms wasn’t as much fun as they thought it was. "
16 " Uh, who’s responsible for this plan? Because this is a bad plan. This is a plan where everybody dies, and I can’t have any part of that. "
