"The thinking that has gotten us to where we are will be insufficient to solve the problems created in getting us here."
— Albert Einstein

"The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us."
— Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park)

"From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism."
— Grant Morrison (The Invisibles Vol. 6: Kissing Mister Quimper)

"And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day."
— Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park)

"All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there."
— Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park)

"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
— George Orwell

"What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore."
— John Shelby Spong

"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."
— Rene Descartes

"You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose."
— Isaac Asimov (Pebble in the Sky)

"And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality."
— Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park)

"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."
— René Descartes