James D. Prescott > Quotes

“the human ability to adapt was one of our greatest strengths, arguably one of the reasons our species had survived the ravages of time and all the challenges that entailed.”
― James D. Prescott, Augmented

“I learned very quickly to either lie down and give up or fight for what I believe in. Every day since then I’ve been tested in ways I never thought possible. Show me a man with a brash manner and I’ll show you someone who’s respected and revered.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Countdown

“We’re all a bunch of eggs really. Some of us just happen to be hard-boiled.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Countdown

“Brings to mind the old Arthur C. Clarke quote,” Shepard said. “You know, the one about how any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Anyone capable of harnessing the power of nature would have been worshiped by people far more primitive.”
― James D. Prescott, The Fifth Kind: Arrival

“mind is a tremendous learning machine, unmatched by any computer we’ve ever made or ever will make. What we try to teach people, however, and what they come away with are often two different things.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Code

“Never forget: How to Serve Man was really a cookbook.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Countdown

“Restaurant 1789 was one of the priciest in Washington and also one of the stuffiest.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Countdown

“The truth however is that different isn’t better or worse, it’s just different.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Crisis

“investigation to occur before conclusions are formed, not the other way”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Countdown

“dooming the entire species.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Crisis

“only when we face the unknown will we meet ourselves for the first time.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Code

“Listen, the riddle of what consciousness is and why we have it is still a rather sticky question in the scientific community. Fundamentally, if all of us are only a bunch of atoms strung together, then we’re not that different from a rock or a star. So if we’re conscious, why aren’t they?”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Crisis

“Life is a series of choices,” she said reflectively. “An endless array of yeses or noes.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Code

“The unpredictable chaos of battle was one way some folks learned who they really were. Facing the incredible was another.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Code

“I also heard he’s had dozens of others arrested too. It’s like the French Revolution all over again.” She was talking about the Terror, a ten-month period from 1793 to 1794 when a zealous revolutionary government used public executions as a way of spreading fear and obedience throughout the population.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Countdown

“bullet to the temple”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Code

“lived.   Pathogens”
― James D. Prescott, The Genesis Conspiracy

“field of haystacks.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Code

“The human mind is a tremendous learning machine, unmatched by any computer we’ve ever made or ever will make. What we try to teach people, however, and what they come away with are often two different things.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Code

“oases”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Code

“scoffing”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Crisis

“Judging from its current rate of infection, if the virus isn’t stopped within ninety-six hours, it’ll mean the end of mankind.”
― James D. Prescott, The Genesis Conspiracy

“The alien creatures weren’t carbon-based life, they were made of silicon.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Crisis

“I’ve tried to take it out, but for the life of me I haven’t got the foggiest idea where it”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Countdown

“they”
― James D. Prescott, The Fifth Kind: Arrival

“A famous science fiction writer”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Countdown

“this is who we are as a species. It seems to me that our moments of caring and compassion tend to be the exception, not the rule.”
― James D. Prescott, Augmented

“The textbooks call it Titanis walleri. But most people know it simply as the terror bird.”
― James D. Prescott, The Genesis Conspiracy

“Jake was suddenly struck by a profound realization—privilege is invisible to those who have it, in the same way that walking around on a pair of biological legs was a privilege he’d enjoyed for close to three decades.”
― James D. Prescott, The Fifth Kind: Ascension

“Einstein called quantum entanglement ‘spooky action at a distance,’ because those entangled particles I mentioned earlier collapsed into the exact same state no matter how far apart they were from one another. Einstein probably didn’t like it since it defied the speed of light predicted by his theory of relativity.”
― James D. Prescott, Extinction Crisis