Henry Loomis Quotes

We don’t rule the Earth. We just think we do. I mean, sure, we’re changing the environment, but that makes us the ones to worry about, not the planet. When the Earth gets tired of us, believe me, it will shake us off like a summer cold. Of all species that have existed on Earth, 99.9% of them are now extinct. Survival is a long shot.

Science is for all of us, not some of us.

I can’t sleep.[Henry Loomis]Well, they say if you can sleep the night before, you should probably quit.[Zora Bennett]

Who do we give it to?[Zora Bennett]You decide.[Henry Loomis]We’ll give it to everyone.[Zora Bennett]

Nobody cares about these animals anymore. They deserve better.

I’m too smart to die.[Martin Krebs]You know, intelligence is massively overrated as an adaptive trait.[Henry Loomis]

Dinosaurs: pretty dumb, right? And yet they survived for 167 million years. And we, Homo sapiens, geniuses by comparison, only have about 200,000 years so far. But with our huge cranial cavities, we’re so smart, we already have the capacity to annihilate ourselves. I doubt we make it to even one million.