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# Peter Watts

(1958)   Zoologist

 **112** quotes in **343** categories

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Peter Watts is a zoologist, best known for *Blindsight*.

## Quick Facts About Peter Watts

Born January 25, 1958

Profession Zoologist

Notable works Blindsight

## About Peter Watts

Peter Watts is a Canadian biologist who also writes science‑fiction novels.

##  Quotes by Peter Watts · Page 2

> [“Not even Lucifer left Heaven until he was pushed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/not-even-lucifer-left-heaven-until-he-was-pushed/)

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[Lucifer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lucifer/)

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> [“You give up a lot when you don't trust the EM spectrum.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/you-give-up-a-lot-when-you-don-t-trust-the-em-spectrum/)

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[Spectrum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/spectrum/)

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> [We are not thinking machines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/we-are-not-thinking-machines/)

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[Computers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/)

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> [“You never finish a book. You only abandon it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/you-never-finish-a-book-you-only-abandon-it/)

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[Abandon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abandon/)

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> [“You can be such a reptile sometimes,” she said.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/you-can-be-such-a-reptile-sometimes-she-said/)

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[Reptile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/reptile/)

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> [“The vampires win every time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/the-vampires-win-every-time/)

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[Time](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/time/)

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> [“Perfection’s unattainable but it isn’t unapproachable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/perfection-s-unattainable-but-it-isn-t-unapproachable/)

[Peter Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-watts/)

[Excellence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excellence/)

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> [It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/it-s-not-in-the-nature-of-the-lamb-to-mourn-the-lion/)

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[Lamb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lamb/)

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> [I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/i-really-wanted-to-talk-to-her-i-just-couldn-t-find-an-algorithm-that/)

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[Algorithms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/algorithms/)

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> [“You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/you-had-hoped-that-smarter-creatures-would-be-wiser-ones/)

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[Intelligence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/)

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> [Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/are-you-kidding-that-s-the-music-of-the-spheres-commissar-it-s/)

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[Beautiful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beautiful/)

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> [“Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/pack-animals-always-tear-apart-the-weaklings-in-their-midst-every/)

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[Animals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animals/)

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> [“But deceleration is for pansies. We're headed for the stars.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/but-deceleration-is-for-pansies-we-re-headed-for-the-stars/)

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[Moon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moon/)

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> [“I visited blathernodes, soaked myself in other people's opinions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/i-visited-blathernodes-soaked-myself-in-other-people-s-opinions/)

[Peter Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-watts/)

[Neologism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/neologism-130120/)

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> [“PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST’S PROVERB”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/predators-run-for-their-dinner-prey-run-for-their-lives-old-ecologist/)

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[Hunting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/)

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> [“Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/mind-out-of-the-gutter-suze-eros-is-only-one-kind-of-love-eh-ancient/)

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[Ancient greek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ancient-greek/)

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> [“Ludzie naprawdę nie walczą o odcień skóry czy ideologię – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji „swoich”. Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza się do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/ludzie-naprawd-nie-walcz-o-odcie-sk-ry-czy-ideologi-to-tylko-wygodne/)

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[Toga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/toga/)

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> [“You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/you-are-all-sleepwalkers-whether-climbing-creative-peaks-or-slogging/)

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[Habits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/habits/)

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> [But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/but-when-the-flash-flood-crosses-your-path-when-the-lion-leaps-at-you/)

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[Awareness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awareness/)

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> [Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/stars-everywhere-so-many-stars-that-i-could-not-for-the-life-me/)

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[Astronomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomy/)

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> [“So there’s a membrane of—of living tissue around that star,” I say, trying to wrap my head around the concept. “A, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/so-there-s-a-membrane-of-of-living-tissue-around-that-star-i-say/)

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[Astronomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomy/)

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> [“ Everyone’s got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn’t noticed.” He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/everyone-s-got-intimacy-issues-these-days-in-case-you-hadn-t-noticed/)

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[Decades](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/decades/)

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> [If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/if-believing-absurd-falsehoods-increase-the-odds-of-getting-laid-or/)

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[Absurd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absurd/)

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> [“Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/maybe-your-empathy-s-just-a-comforting-lie-you-ever-think-of-that/)

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[Cynicism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cynicism/)

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> [“My genes done gone and tricked my brain By making fucking feel so great That's how the little creeps attain Their plan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/my-genes-done-gone-and-tricked-my-brain-by-making-fucking-feel-so/)

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[Procreation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/procreation/)

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> [Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/computers-bootstrap-their-own-offspring-grow-so-wise-and/)

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[Analysis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/analysis/)

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> [Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/not-even-the-most-heavily-armed-police-state-can-exert-brute-force-to/)

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[Alternatives](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alternatives/)

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> [“I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/i-know-i-know-it-can-be-frustrating-as-hell-but-people-have-an/)

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[Analogy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/analogy/)

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> [“But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/but-people-have-an-unfortunate-habit-of-assuming-they-understand-the/)

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[Brain surgery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brain-surgery/)

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> [“Brüks digested that. “Well, if it was supposed to be some kind of compliment, her delivery needs work. You’d think someone with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/br-ks-digested-that-well-if-it-was-supposed-to-be-some-kind-of/)

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[Compliment](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/compliment/)

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> [“So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone. This time it's going to count. She's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/so-much-anger-in-here-so-much-hate-so-much-to-take-out-on-someone/)

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[Adrift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adrift/)

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> [“Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/computation-after-all-implied-a-problem-not-yet-solved-insights-not/)

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[Computation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computation/)

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> [“Centuries of navel-gazing. Millennia of masturbation. Plato to Descartes to Dawkins to Rhanda. Souls and zombie agents and qualia. Kolmogorov complexity. Consciousness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/centuries-of-navel-gazing-millennia-of-masturbation-plato-to/)

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[Consciousness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/consciousness/)

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> [“Rumors had their own classic epidemiology. Each started with a single germinating event. Information spread from that point, mutating and interbreeding—a conical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/rumors-had-their-own-classic-epidemiology-each-started-with-a-single/)

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[Conspiracy theories](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conspiracy-theories/)

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> [“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/fifty-thousand-years-ago-there-were-these-three-guys-spread-out/)

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[Humble beginnings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humble-beginnings/)

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> [“I know your race and mine are never on the best of terms." There was a cold smile in his voice if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/i-know-your-race-and-mine-are-never-on-the-best-of-terms-there-was-a/)

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[Humanity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humanity/)

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> [“We've surpassed ourselves now, we're exploring terrain beyond the limits of merely human understanding. Sometimes its contours, even in conventional space, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/we-ve-surpassed-ourselves-now-we-re-exploring-terrain-beyond-the/)

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[Learning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/learning/)

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> [“IMAGINE YOU ARE Siri Keeton. You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/imagine-you-are-siri-keeton-you-wake-in-an-agony-of-resurrection-2/)

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[Breath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/breath/)

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> [“Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/evolution-has-no-foresight-complex-machinery-develops-its-own-agendas/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [“A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, unable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-watts/a-whole-planet-of-worlds-and-not-one-of-them-not-one-has-a-soul-they/)

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[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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