Quotes About Discovery

Douglas Preston

number 118, oganesson. That element was only confirmed in 2002, and it lasts for just one five-hundredth of a second before decaying into something else.

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Incidents of Travel

We took canoes into the heart of darkness.

Douglas Preston

the Mosquitia civilization vanished everywhere all at once—in a sudden, civilization-wide catastrophe.

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Project The Forgotten Room Impact The Third Gate The Monster of Florence Terminal Freeze    (with Mario Spezi) Deep Storm

That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a picture of the die-off that is truly apocalyptic; the lived experience of the indigenous communities during this genocide exceeds the worst that any horror movie has imagined.

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This discovery will draw us closer to the day when humanity can cast aside its evil ways and eventually join the galactic civilization.

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The question failure asks is: what don't we know that we don't know?

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The New World was like a vast, tinder-dry forest waiting to burn—and Columbus brought the fire.

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Don't live in the past—you will know what you've lost but not what you've found?