Rick Edwards > Quotes

“The biggest mistake people tend to make when thinking about evolution is to believe that there is an ultimate aim. Evolution has no purpose.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“Danny Boyle had to employ an army of pretty girls to charm motorists into getting off the roads. And even though the police shut the M1 for two hours, the crew only got one minute’s useable film.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“It would be a real shame if the Beatles ultimately proved to be the trigger for the demise of the human race.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“Bostrom’s simulation hypothesis itself, where humans – or possibly post-humans – are extremely interested in ancestral simulations (as we already are) and able to create ones containing conscious beings.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“The lack of humility before Nature that’s being displayed here staggers me.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“Evolution has no purpose. In simple terms, random changes in an organism’s DNA sometimes give rise to new features. These new features might be useful; more often than not, they are useless. Occasionally they are worse than useless, and make survival less likely. The best features survive because they positively affect the organism’s relationship with its environment. This is natural selection”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“Men are basically dicks.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“The research on Toxoplasma gondii has thrown up some interesting findings. We know, for instance, that infections are more common amongst people with certain psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. But even more disconcerting is the link to a condition called ‘intermittent explosive disorder’. Those with IED are prone to moments of uncontrolled aggression; one of the symptoms is an increased tendency to display road rage, for example”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“Zombie apocalypse or no zombie apocalypse, there will be roadworks on the M1.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“In other words, we mess with Nature at our peril.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“The only one with a sense of ethics: Jeff Goldblum’s mathematician. He has that killer line: ‘Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“There is no story in space and time that tells us how the correlations happen. There must exist some reality outside of space-time.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies

“You can pack a lot of hard-hitting truth into a work of fiction.”
― Rick Edwards, Science(ish): The Peculiar Science Behind the Movies