If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong?

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.