My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That's why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
“It is less than five hundred years since an entire half of the world was discovered. It is less than two hundred… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“He was also, according to his file, “a first-rate scientist partial to beer,” the kind of mind Control had seen before. It… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I think I got a complete picture of what the lives of scientists are like. My father is of the opinion that… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
My stepmom is one of the leading researchers on lupus in the world. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
It should be totally fine to question the objectivity of scientists and the power structures in scientific institutions. The physical laws of… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Because Control knew that belief in a scientific process only took you so far. The ziggurats of illogic erected by your average… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps only I could truly make Wick a person, by forgiving him, and if I forgave him, if I showed I forgave him, then… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“What if an infection was a message, a brightness a kind of symphony? As a defense? An odd form of communication? If so, the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
