Behemoth Quotes

“We appear to be hardwired to punish those who have slighted us, even if—and this is the counterintuitive bit—even if our acts of vengeance hurt us more than those who have trespassed against us.”
― Peter Watts, Behemoth: Seppuku: Rifters Trilogy, Book 3 Part II

“The smallest multicorp killed more people than all the sex killers who ever lived, for a fucking profit margin—and the WTO gave them awards for it.”
― Peter Watts, Behemoth: Seppuku: Rifters Trilogy, Book 3 Part II

“Cities are the graveyard of Mankind.”
― Peter Watts, Behemoth: Seppuku: Rifters Trilogy, Book 3 Part II

“Fifty percent of all medical personnel graduate in the bottom half of their class.”
― Peter Watts, Behemoth: Seppuku: Rifters Trilogy, Book 3 Part II

“The only variables she cared about came from inside her own head, and neither guilt nor obsession were amenable to cost-benefit analysis.”
― Peter Watts, Behemoth: Seppuku: Rifters Trilogy, Book 3 Part II

“You were a scientist once, she told herself. You rejected incantations outright. You knew the truths that protected you from bias and woolly-mindedness, and you learned them all by heart: Correlation is not causation. Nothing is real until replicated. The mind sees order in noise; trust only numbers.”
― Peter Watts, Behemoth: Seppuku: Rifters Trilogy, Book 3 Part II

“The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. —E. O. Wilson I would gladly lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins. —J. B. S. Haldane”
― Peter Watts, Behemoth: Seppuku: Rifters Trilogy, Book 3 Part II

“Sometimes when you see too much, you miss a lot.”
― Peter Watts, Behemoth: Seppuku: Rifters Trilogy, Book 3 Part II