“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“Research today has become more about seeing if something can be done versus judging if it should. It's knowledge for the sake of knowledge, regardless of the impact on the world.”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity’s progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next. Gray”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“this sudden appearance of Homo sapiens is attributable to the rapid mutation of only seventeen brain-building genes. A scant few, really.”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“Better to head off into the unknown than stay here, where death was most certain”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“He wrote that it would take only a handful of super-enhanced individuals—those with a superior intelligence—to change the world through their creativity and discoveries, innovations that could be shared globally.”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“Are we at the cusp of a second Great Leap Forward? Or are we doomed to fall backward once again?”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“coming from the far passageway that led to the smaller”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“Just go look.
That sentiment had been the driving force behind humanity's progress across the ages, a simple imperative fueled by our innate curiosity: to discover what was around the next bend, over the next horizon. It was that same inquisitiveness that impelled us to explore who we are, where we came from, and where we are headed next.”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“Two historical figures play prominent roles in this book: a pair of priests who lived centuries apart but who were tied together by fate. During the seventeenth century, Father Athanasius Kircher was known as the Leonardo da Vinci of the Jesuit Order.”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― James Rollins, quote from The Bone Labyrinth
James Rollins
Born place: in Chicago, IL, The United States
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Roswell grinned and rolled his eyes, "Because that's what teenagers do, right? They also carve swastikas into their arms, steal prescription drugs from old people, and freebase cocaine. I need to institute a policy where she stops watching 60 Minutes and pretty much all public service announcements.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, quote from The Replacement
“When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.”
― Frank Miller, quote from Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye
“Imagine that the genome is a book.
There are twenty-three chapters, called CHROMOSOMES.
Each chapter contains several thousand stories, called GENES.
Each story is made up of paragraphs, called EXTONS, which are interrupted by advertisements called INTRONS.
Each paragraph is made up of words, called CODONS.
Each word is written in letters called BASES.”
― Matt Ridley, quote from Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
“In the healing ways of women that remained mysterious to [him] even as he watched them do their work, tears were followed by reminiscences that brought a smile and soothed, and hope was always found to be the flower that bloomed from every seed of hopelessness.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from From the Corner of His Eye
“Believing that others will react as we would is the single most dangerous myth of intervention.”
― Gavin de Becker, quote from The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
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