Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything

What is this place? Jurassic Park?

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.