Extinction Quotes

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. —Carl Sagan”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous. —Edward O. Wilson”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Much of our brainpower, scientists believe, evolved to deal effectively with social interactions, which allowed us to live successfully in ever-larger groups. Chimpanzees have enormous social problems living in even small, simple troops; they are horribly prone to violence and have poor conflict resolution skills, constantly jockeying for dominance, squabbling, and beating each other up. They cooperate only with great difficulty.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery. What’s next for Sapiens in the glorious march of progress?”
― douglas preston, Extinction

“gunfire”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“A great scientist,” said Barrow, “is like a great artist. You love what you do for its own sake—but you also crave an audience. Michelangelo would never have painted the Sistine Chapel if he thought no one would see it. I wanted to share my creations with the world.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery. What’s next for Sapiens in the glorious march of progress?”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“As Frankie Cash says at the end of my novel, “If something can be done, it will be done—no matter how dangerous. I have no doubt that in China or Russia or even somewhere else in America, Neanderthals are being resurrected.” While Extinction is fiction, the science in it is real. It is here, and it is now. If Neanderthals haven’t already been de-extincted somewhere on earth, they will be soon.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“He and other anthropologists had developed a set of six criteria for determining if a set of human remains had been cannibalized or not. Since that time, archaeologists all over the world had established the unsettling fact that cannibalism was widespread in the human record and extended way back. People had been killing and eating people for a hundred thousand years or more.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous. —Edward”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Even though Doyle had rejected Catholicism a long time ago, he thanked God most fervently for having been delivered.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“I was here all night”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“the dynamite hadn’t gone off.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Acosta and his dogs found the bodies of our two missing hikers,” she said. “It seems … they’ve been cannibalized.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Looks like maybe they forgot to dab on their bile perfume.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“They might wrap this case up by nightfall.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“There were six Monopoly tokens, right? Let’s see—the shoe, thimble, top hat, iron…” “Cannon and battleship,”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“couloirs”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Since she carried it without a round in the chamber,”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“were”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“herbivores are not peaceful animals. Good lord, no! In fact, the most dangerous animals in Africa aren’t lions and leopards but elephants, buffalo, hippos, and rhinos—all herbivores.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“It’s much easier to regulate a small space than a large one—”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“It was like seeing elephants in a zoo versus viewing them on safari in the African bush.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Baby Glock 9 mm,”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous.—Edward O. Wilson”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are!

Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery.

What's next for Sapiens in the glorious march of progress?”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery. What’s next for Sapiens in the glorious march of progress?”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Lots of idiots running for office these days.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction