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The best predators always learned how to masquerade as things that wouldn’t seem threatening. That was how they got close enough to strike.
Are mermaids real? Yes. Are mermaids friendly? No. Why is this so hard? —Dr. Jillian Toth
Mankind has a responsibility to the sea. We owe it our lives. —Theodore Blackwell
Asking scientists not to look into an open box was like asking cats not to saunter through an open door. It simply wasn’t practical.
Sometimes science was the closest thing to the sword of an avenging angel humanity was ever going to get.
Humanity was cruel, and if you were prepared to try to find a bottom to that cruelty, you had best be prepared for a long, long fall.
The trouble with having a bear sharing your bed was that one day, the bear was going to notice that you were there; one day, the maimings would begin in earnest.
“When a man undertakes a journey of revenge, he needs to dig two graves,”
Sometimes the mistakes we make can’t be taken back. Sometimes those are the worst ones of all. —Dr. Hallie Wilson
The smarter you are, the more likely you are to want to eat the world.
“Whistling past the graveyard is a time-honored tradition. Keeps us from screaming.”
The trouble with discovery is that it goes two ways. For you to find something, that thing must also find you. —Victoria Stewart
