“It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful.” — Peter Watts Beautiful Copy Share Image
“You can’t kill the thing under the bed. You can only keep it outside the covers.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST’S PROVERB” — Peter Watts Hunting Copy Share Image
Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz. — Peter Watts Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.” — Peter Watts Animals Copy Share Image
“Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.” — Peter Watts Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“Ludzie naprawdę nie walczą o odcień skóry czy ideologię – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji „swoich”. Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza się do… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.” — Peter Watts Affection Copy Share Image
“You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.” — Peter Watts Habits Copy Share Image
But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable… — Peter Watts Awareness Copy Share Image
Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet… — Peter Watts Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we took refuge in our diving bell while waves of charge and magnetism spiraled languidly past, like boluses of ectoplasm coursing… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down… — Peter Watts Bloodline Copy Share Image
“Nine days after Perreault first saw the woman in black, an Indonesian mother of four came out of her tent long enough… — Peter Watts Mermaid Copy Share Image
“If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“The only reason we were here was because nobody had yet optimized software for First Contact.” — Peter Watts First contact Copy Share Image
“Failure to converge. Confidence limits exceeded. Further predictions unreliable.” — Peter Watts Confidence Copy Share Image
“Hey, chaotic trajectories are just as deterministic as any other kind.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Thanks to a vampire and a boatload of freaks and an invading alien horde, I’m Human again.” — Peter Watts Human Copy Share Image
I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. — Peter Watts Algorithms Copy Share Image
“You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.” — Peter Watts Intelligence Copy Share Image
How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war? — Peter Watts Peace Copy Share Image
“...there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all survival strategy” — Peter Watts Strategy Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Altruism Copy Share Image
Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There’s a… — Peter Watts Light Copy Share Image
“He couldn’t be bothered to work out the acceleration of free-falling bodies that gained weight with each meter, but down the length… — Peter Watts Mind Copy Share Image
