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“There’s a clarity that arrives when life forces you into a binary situation.”
Andrew Mayne, The Naturalist
“Killing is a solution to a problem. Murder is something you do because you want to. You divorce your wife because you don’t love her. You murder her because you hate her.”
Andrew Mayne, The Naturalist
“The next time you get into a political discussion, stop and ask yourself what amount of evidence would change your mind. If the answer is none, then realize you’re actually in a religious discussion, one more zealot arguing with another.”
Andrew Mayne, Looking Glass
“Sometimes you don’t get to choose your struggles—they choose you.”
Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea
“When no amount of evidence can convince you that your worldview might be inaccurate, then we’ve exited the realm of reason and entered religious territory. This is why I laugh at the notion of reconciling faith and science. Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don’t support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.”
Andrew Mayne, Looking Glass
“As my hero Richard Feynman would say, “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is; it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”
Andrew Mayne, Looking Glass
“Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.”
Andrew Mayne, Name of the Devil
“know for a fact that if we did as many drug searches of rich white schools as we do poor black ones, there’d be an outcry about our “lack of discretion.” It’s tricky on both sides.”
Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea
“A mistake we make too often in science is thinking that having a name for something is the same as understanding it. A skeleton in a museum or a drop of blood”
Andrew Mayne, The Naturalist
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, a mere heart of stone. —Charles Darwin”
Andrew Mayne, The Naturalist
“Roosevelt pulled a cigar from his pocket and lit it. “How can you smoke at a time like this?” asked the captain. His eyes were aimed up at the falling flames.

“Hell, if I’m going to die, it’s going to be doing something I enjoy. And since none of you are of the female persuasion, it’s the cigar.”

“At this point the fall would probably just pulverize our legs. If we could avoid cardiac arrest, we’d live. As invalids of course,” replied Smith.

“Don’t ruin my cigar, Schmitty.”
Andrew Mayne, The Martian Emperor
“It’s one thing to kill someone and not leave evidence or hide the body so it’s never found, but to be able to murder someone and have everyone think it was an accident of nature? That’s some kind of genius.”
Andrew Mayne, The Naturalist
“And homicides in Chicago are responsible for fifty percent of the increase in the United States’ murder rate in the last year. Do you think the problem is deep-dish pizza or that it’s become a shitty place to live?”
Andrew Mayne, Looking Glass
“one of the gifts of science: when you discover a new truth, you also gain a new way of looking at things that can change your perspective.”
Andrew Mayne, Looking Glass
“Tri-acetone tri-peroxide. TATP.” “Like plastic explosive?” I ask.”
Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea
“I hate myself for how much this grudging nod of respect means to me. But it does mean something . . . How do assholes make us care what they think?”
Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea
“Cardiff thinks I’m tied up with them? I’ve half a mind to tell him to go fuck himself right now. Fortunately, the rational side of my brain keeps me from going all McPherson on him. I take a slow breath and put the regulator back in my mouth as I slip under the waves”
Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea
“How do you weigh the known versus the unknown? You can’t. It all comes down to what statistics you choose to believe.”
Andrew Mayne, Looking Glass
“road”
Andrew Mayne, Orbital
“You’re a garbage woman with a badge,”
Andrew Mayne, Name of the Devil
“The machines won, sister. We’re just in denial.”
Andrew Mayne, Murder Theory
“If you're Stephen King and you realized halfway through you've created far too many plot lines; you arbitrarily murder a few in the middle of the book. If you're George RR Martin; well, you just keep writing more books and murder them at your leisure.”
Andrew Mayne, How to Write a Novella in 24 Hours: And other questionable & possibly insane advice on creativity for writers
“Scanning through the bar graphs and readouts of the first DNA sequence e-mailed to me from the lab, I can see the messy, haphazard collection of instructions that make up a human life. While some would argue that the fact that this almost random pattern is proof of a miracle, I’d point out that by that logic, every living thing that manages to be born is a miracle—and if we’re all miracles, then nobody is, because the word has lost its meaning. Life works or it doesn’t.”
Andrew Mayne, Looking Glass
“Science isn’t a book of explanations. It’s a process. A process we’re continuing to refine and make more precise. Despite setbacks and wrong turns, nobody has ever seriously said the problem with science was its demand for more precision and deeper understanding.”
Andrew Mayne, The Final Equinox
“The real danger isn’t what the Atlantic articles or the New York Times editorials would have you believe: that good guys become bad guys. The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don’t see as bad. It’s why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation. It’s when people who want democracy in the Middle East find themselves building military bases instead of schools and hospitals.”
Andrew Mayne, Looking Glass
“Pelicans are simply an ungrateful mouth on wings.”
Andrew Mayne, The Girl Beneath the Sea
“A completed mediocre idea is infinitely better than an unfinished stroke of genius.”
Andrew Mayne, How to Write a Novella in 24 Hours: And other questionable & possibly insane advice on creativity for writers

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