History is a constant race between invention and…

“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run.”

— Frank Herbert

Once you get into the industry, there's this constant race and fight, and you don't even understand who is pulling the strings, and over…

— Sargun Mehta

“The greatest contribution that can ever be made to the human race has already been made through the invention of meditation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

— Gerald Vizenor

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same…

— Friedrich Schiller

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

— Stephen Jay Gould

The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche.…

— Kate Wilhelm

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The…

— Frank Herbert

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred…

— David Suzuki

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who…

— Mike Nichols

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements…

— Harold Bloom

To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this…

— Rick Snyder

“..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...”

— Michel Leiris

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith