Split Second Quotes

“Dark energy can be tapped into, and all of this crazy energy can be bottled and used after all. But only by using it at right angles to the four dimensions of space and time. By driving the energy usage through a fifth dimension. My”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“there are four fundamental forces in nature that we know of. Electromagnetism, which everyone knows about. The weak nuclear force, which makes possible the fusion that powers the sun. And the strong nuclear force, which basically holds the nuclei of atoms together.” “I’ll”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That’s why they call it the present. —Unknown   “The”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“But now, in the case of human society, with no natural predators to thin the herd, evolution didn’t reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most. The”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“What I find the most insidious about this,” said Joe Allen, “is how fervent, how zealous, his followers seem to be. Even if they don’t always like his personality, they believe in his cause.” “His cause?” said Jenna in disgust. “Ruling the world is a cause?”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“With the right combination of money, power, intimidation, and coercion, he can get leaders to gradually work their way toward consenting to a global government, with himself at the helm.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Ernest Hemingway had said, “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“I’d”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“But there was no understanding an ideology this rabid, this diseased. Who could understand a woman who would strap a bomb on a child and send him or her into a crowded square?”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“The moral: the dimwitted and impulsive might not be able to hold a job or learn algebra, but they sure knew how to screw each other—and reproduce like crazy.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“hard-won”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“It turns out that while objects can move through space and time at different rates, they all move through space-time at exactly the same rate: the speed of light. Always.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Einstein: His Life and Universe,”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“bright lights,” he said. “I’m afraid we’re a disappointment compared to Hollywood’s”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“human ability the world had ever seen, what he affectionately called his Brain Trust, a group so important he insisted these words be capitalized.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“rocket-propelled suppository”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That’s why they call it the present.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Technology . . . is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“anything I’ve ever done. This makes string theory look as simple as addition.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“but once it’s fleshed out, you never know. And even if it doesn’t quite reach the level of importance of relativity, I think it will be just as surprising to the world as this was”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“You’re about to drink wine that didn’t come out of a box, remarkable. Possible Nobel Prize remarkable. I haven’t begun to determine if there are any real-world applications, but on theoretical grounds this could be a huge breakthrough.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“talked to himself under his breath fairly frequently, and often couldn’t remember where he had left stuff, as though his mind was too powerful to dwell on the mundane.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Using big words isn’t impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond, becoming battle hardened.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“But while the West often failed to understand the motivations of these extremists, the extremists understood the motivations of the West only too well. They found the West soft. Gullible. Stupid. Its media easily manipulated.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That’s why they call it the present. —Unknown”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“evolution didn’t reward those with the most intelligence, but simply those who reproduced the most.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“fertility and intelligence, dysgenics, and the Idiocracy effect.”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second

“It never ceased to amaze him the power of the sex drive. No matter how intelligent and rational a person was otherwise, the sex drive was controlled by more primitive regions, and could turn the most brilliant man on Earth into an animal, flirting with disaster in pursuit of physical gratification, even when he knew in his rational mind that this was nothing but a trick played on him by his incorrigible limbic system. Walsh entered”
― Douglas E. Richards, Split Second