Extinction Quotes

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. —Carl Sagan”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous. —Edward O. Wilson”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Baby Glock 9 mm,”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous. —Edward”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“It was like seeing elephants in a zoo versus viewing them on safari in the African bush.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“It’s much easier to regulate a small space than a large one—”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“herbivores are not peaceful animals. Good lord, no! In fact, the most dangerous animals in Africa aren’t lions and leopards but elephants, buffalo, hippos, and rhinos—all herbivores.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“were”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Since she carried it without a round in the chamber,”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“couloirs”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“There were six Monopoly tokens, right? Let’s see—the shoe, thimble, top hat, iron…” “Cannon and battleship,”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“They might wrap this case up by nightfall.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Looks like maybe they forgot to dab on their bile perfume.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Acosta and his dogs found the bodies of our two missing hikers,” she said. “It seems … they’ve been cannibalized.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“the dynamite hadn’t gone off.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“I was here all night”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Even though Doyle had rejected Catholicism a long time ago, he thanked God most fervently for having been delivered.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous.—Edward O. Wilson”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are!

Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery.

What's next for Sapiens in the glorious march of progress?”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural revolution turned you from free wanderers into slaves to the land. The Industrial Revolution robbed you of your souls and made you cruel. And the IT revolution gave you loneliness, hatred, and misery. What’s next for Sapiens in the glorious march of progress?”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Lots of idiots running for office these days.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“They sequenced the Neanderthal genome way back in 2010—the guy who did it won a Nobel Prize.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“This has been done before. For example, the famous serial killer in Italy, known as the Monster of Florence, flushed his”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“indricothere”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“forensic pathology. He devoured those notorious British cases from the early twentieth century, classics that included the Brides in the Bath murders, the case of Dr. Crippen, and the Crumbles murders. Spilsbury was legendary for his fearsome courtroom appearances and his application of scientific methods to what had previously been guesswork and intuition. No”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“and his crazy English uncle gave him a book about Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the man who invented”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“What did you read?” “A novel.” “What novel?” “Bloodless by Preston and Child.”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“to see a woolly indricothere. It was the latest animal Erebus had de-extincted,”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous. —Edward O. Wilson Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. —Carl Sagan”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction

“Most modern humans carry variant 129 of the PRNP gene. (This is a gene that controls the manufacture of certain proteins.) Variant 129 makes humans immune to prion”
― Douglas Preston, Extinction