Darwin's Radio Quotes

“In a world of fragile self-justification, the truth made no one happy.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

“I’m not sure how I see things anymore,” Mitch said. “Having your body jerked around by nature is sobering. Women experience it more directly, but this has got to be a first for the men.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

“Faith in Life.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

“He understood better now. The mass called the shots. If the mass could not understand, then nothing he did, or Augustine did, or the Taskforce, would much matter. And the mass quite clearly understood nothing. The voices drifting his direction spoke of outrage at a government that would slaughter children, voices angrily denouncing “morning-after genocide.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

“Maybe it was the world that was screwy, that set traps and snares and forced people to make bad choices.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

“Kaye glared at him for a moment, both challenged and exasperated. “We don’t have to posit self-awareness, conscious thought, to have an organized network that responds to its environment and issues judgments about what its individual nodes should look like,” Kaye said.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

“How nice it would be to know nothing about all the inner workings. Animal innocence; the unexamined life is the sweetest. But things go wrong and prompt introspection and examination. The root of all awareness.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

“two children, Erik and Alexandra. “ABSORBING AND INGENIOUS.” —Kirkus Reviews “[A] riveting, near-future thriller . . .”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

“For years I’ve been waiting for nature to react to our environmental bullshit, tell us to stop overpopulating and depleting resources, to shut up and stop messing around and just die. Species-level apoptosis. I think this could be the final warning—a real species killer.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio

“I’ve seen that look on cabinet ministers,” Merton observed quietly. “When they were stuffed full of too many secrets.”
― Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio