Quotes from Douglas E. Richards

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." —Niels Bohr, Nobel Laureate & Quantum Physics Pioneer

Knight sighed loudly. "I know most people believe everything the government does, especially within Black Ops, is all about war mongering, for military uses only. But this isn't true. Yes, the military gets first dibs and can elect to keep findings secret for a time, but many of the greatest tech advances in history came about as military projects that were initially covert. Secret

Microtubules are the key ingredient for human consciousness, and are able to exhibit quantum effects. Even in the warm, wet, and noisy environment of the brain.

we'll avoid your biggest mistake, by making sure smart phones and social media never comes into being.

knowledge right now, there are two trillion galaxies in the known Universe, each with an average of a hundred billion stars. Which comes to two hundred billion trillion stars in total. And

People are most content when they're growing. When they're accomplishing goals, working hard to achieve something difficult and then achieving it." Victor paused. "But most important of all is a person's social network. The quality of relationships. Friends, relatives, co-workers, and so on. Emotional connections. I have

wearing metal in his mouth

it's true," said the major, "you could have your cake and eat it to.

Richard Feynman showed that anti-matter is identical, mathematically, to ordinary matter traveling backward in time. He

The nanites are like the wildest dreams of Richard Feynman come to life.

Evolution can work through competition, but it can work through cooperation also. Take a beehive.

sometimes a less common word needs to be used to convey a nuance, or achieve a necessary level of precision. But if something can be said simply, it should be. Using big words isn't impressive. Getting points across simply, succinctly, but with great clarity is.

If I could kill Kearn, it would be quite a setback to the empire. I'd be

The moral: the dimwitted and impulsive might not be able to hold a job or learn algebra, but they sure knew how to screw each other—and reproduce like crazy. The movie took place many generations in the future, after which this reverse evolution had run its inevitable course, resulting in a society largely composed of morons.

Some people melted under pressure and some reacted to its squeeze by turning into diamond,

great scientists invented technologies to achieve their goals, but never failed to modify existing technologies to suit their needs whenever possible. Why reinvent the wheel when there was so much else that needed to be done?

If life could be reduced to the purely rational, to a solvable equation, there would be no mystery, no excitement. Life would become utterly predictable; a tedious movie that could never surprise.

The pay gap is visceral. It feels wrong and unfair. Voters are already predisposed to think Republicans are uncaring, country-club pricks. So

Telepathy must somehow travel through four dimensions, so the signal can remain strong, taking a shortcut through vast 3D distances.

Eeny?" said Salazar. "Is that from Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?" "Really, Harry?" said Kelly in amusement. "You think I'd name it after Eeny, meeny, miny, moe?

their very ferocity, their audacity, had the opposite effect,

thrust out their right arms

The great English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead had written, "It is the business of the future to be dangerous. The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

And as you've already seen," added the AI, "I can't even answer all of your questions about the how of it, as you put it.