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.

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

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young...there is no mastery, old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature...Its a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.