Science fiction is humanity’s essential mirror. Look into it if you dare. DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES A New Scientist magazine “Best Science Fiction Books of the Month” selection #booksbyguypharrison

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." —Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft #booksinmybookcase

Think before you join. Think before you buy. Think before you vote. Think before you believe. #booksbyguypharrison

“If you dropped a datacenter containing an AI into the year 10,000 BC, maybe it’d have difficulty manipulating the world. But the present-day world is one where smart AIs would not have any trouble at all acting on the world.” #AI

“You’ve no doubt heard it said, ‘war is just human nature.’ And that is true, in that people can and often do make war. But do we ‘naturally’ lean into it, prefer it over other paths? Is that innate tendency why war is so common? No.” — R. Brian Ferguson, anthropologist

“Reality cannot be ignored, except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.” — Aldous Huxley, “Religion and Time” (1943 essay)

"Could it be, the firmness of the past is just an illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? —Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams, 1992 novel #booksinmybookcase

“As the common understanding of reality crumbles, fascist politics makes room for dangerous and false beliefs to take root. First, fascist ideology seeks to naturalize group difference, thereby giving the appearance of natural, scientific support for a hierarchy of human worth." #booksinmybookcase

“The dangers of fascist politics come from the particular way in which it dehumanizes segments of the population.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018) #books #booksinmybookcase

Science fiction is humanity’s essential mirror. Look into it if you dare. DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES A New Scientist magazine “Best Science Fiction Books of the Month” selection #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes #booksbyguypharrison #books

“The big questions do not go away.” —Robin Waterfield, Plato of Athens #booksinmybookcase

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.” —Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980 book #astronomy #science #criticalthinking #booksinmybookcase

Critical thinking is free. Sloppy thinking can be very expensive.

Five Sci-Fi Novels That Can Change Your View of Reality www.psychologytoday.com/sg/blog/abou...

“Fascist politics thrives on the human frailty that makes our own suffering seem bearable if we know that those we look down upon are being made to suffer more.” —Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Incompetent, shortsighted, greedy, and power-obsessed government leaders destroying scientific progress while having little to no understanding of what science is and how it benefits everyone. #NASA bigthink.com/starts-with-...

“Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War.” —Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, 2006 novel

“But growth was always an illusion, bought only by exploiting other people or the Earth’s irreplaceable resources or burning up our children’s future.” —Stephen Baxter, Manifold: Time, 2000 novel

"They stared at their phones and listened to their headpieces and looked through their glasses of augmented reality, and mostly they forgot. Forgot what it meant to be human." —Daniel Arenson, Earth Alone, 2016 novel

“Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous."

Stop letting social media make you stupid.

Wisdom from The Doctor... #drwho

“That’s the curse of intelligence—never being satisfied, always longing for something but not knowing what.” ―Peter Cawdron, Cold Eyes, 2021 novel

Something my camera saw along the way... "Do not destroy what you cannot create." ―Leo Szilard #somethingmycamerasawalongtheway

Stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope! #JWST #NASA #space #science

“Strange, isn’t it? Everything you know, your entire civilization, it all begins right here in this little pond of goo. Appropriate somehow, isn’t it?” ― Q (extraterrestrial entity), Star Trek: The Next Generation, “All Good Things…” 1994, written by Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga

The scientifically advanced monkey...

Climbing from the cradle...

“One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction.” ― Ex Machina, 2014 film, written by Alex Garland #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes

“Kol-Ut-Shan, infinite diversity in infinite combinations. Accept difference, respect difference—come in peace.” ― The Autobiography of Mr. Spock, 2021 novel by Una McCormack #damnyouentropythegreatestsciencefictionquotes

Death is harsh... “It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, 2020 novel

Just another domesticated eukaryote cursed with consciousness...

“The stars will never be won by little minds; we must be big as space itself.” —Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star, 1956 novel #sciencefiction #books

“To effectively contain a civilization’s development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.” ―Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem, 2014 novel DAMN YOU, ENTROPY!

"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." ―Babylon 5, television series, “Survivors,” 1994, written by Marc Scott Zicree DAMN YOU, ENTROPY! 1,001 OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION QUOTES #sciencefiction #books

Everything new is in an old science-fiction novel… "It makes me uneasy to see the ignorance in which we run our world." —George Zebrowski, Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia, 1979 novel #sciencefictionquotesguyharrisonloves

These five novels can expand your mind and change your view of reality. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/abou...

Tangent: AI-powered influence operations, at scale. www.defenseone.com/threats/2025...

"To hypnotize humans was easy because, out of any species in the universe, they seemed the one most desperate to believe." ―Matt Haig, The Humans, 2013 novel

“Time machines may be dangerous.” ― Igor Novikov, The Future of Spacetime: Essays by Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris and Alan Lightman

“Each of our human bodies contains far more atoms than there are stars in the visible universe, and our brains contain about as many neurons as there are stars in our galaxy. The universe within is a worthy complement to the universe beyond.” – Fundamentals, by Frank Wilczek

“Infinity may or may not exist, God may or may not exist, but there is no need for either in mathematics.”

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, 2004 novel

“Humans succeed only because they have been given a perfect world.” ― Kevin A. Kuhn, “The Case Against Humanity,” 2020 short story

Is it even possible to keep up with the avalanche of American insanity these days? Trump's sex-crimes stuff and fascism moves get most of the attention but don't miss the grinding daily stupidity taking place. It will take a long time for the US to recover from this Mad King moment.

"A watched pot never boils. That is all you need to know about quantum physics." ―Matt Haig, The Humans, 2013 novel

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” – George Orwell, ‘Essays’

“Nothing is the worst thing you could encounter.” ―Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide, 2022 nonfiction book (Art by Lia Halloran)

“It is hard to know how many lives may have been saved if sexism and patriarchy had not triumphed in human societies.” – A Voice in the Wilderness, by Joseph L. Graves Jr.

Overconfidence.