Steve Merrick Quotes & Sayings

The mind interprets the real world and this is as real as real can be but you have to ask yourself, how often you have met a talking orchid? — Steve Merrick

The path of life on our planet and maybe many others does not need a divinity to thrive, it needs no excuse to live, owes no debt to the universe because it is a part of the universe, no driving force other than the primal forces of physics and chemistry are needed, those two sets created biology, and if you backtrack all of the life on the Earth, you inevitably end up looking at stardust. — Steve Merrick

Now that would be a good way to face Armageddon, fighting it every step of the way, or should you choose to be an Ostrich, well you can go out with your head buried in the sand. — Steve Merrick

Theres nothing more fun than a kitten in zero gravity. — Steve Merrick

By looking through my human eyes, I hope you can see the humanity in all of it, beyond the topics of my words. Because life is an expression and our species should be a united one, not a just another bunch of tribal morons. — Steve Merrick

No, It's not failed, it's correcting itself through failure,
Kego O'Grady in the Navogator by Steve Merrick. — Steve Merrick

Politicians? You can't vote for them and you can't strangle them. — Steve Merrick

Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality a one sided massacre, but so was Bosnia and there the ceasefire is holding, so would it be nice to have a declaration backing a ceasefire between us mammals? — Steve Merrick

That is what is normal, it's an every day millisecond by millisecond miracle."

Zhi Wawa in Charlie Versus The Quantum Memory. — Steve Merrick

Charles Darwin's only mistake was in not being a physicist, because the entire process of evolution started before our planet formed, with the event called the big bang, at this point our knowledge is such that I can hazard this further observation, all of the building blocks of life started at that moment, and that is how far we can back track this process of evolution. — Steve Merrick

Psychology and art are never easy bedfellows. — Steve Merrick

The objective of law is, to hide the truth in plain site. — Steve Merrick

If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is? — Steve Merrick

Guess what? Science like gravity doesn't care what the sex of the discoverers is ... — Steve Merrick

Economics.
Something humans invented and then lost control of, it isn't real, it's not like gravity and we could evolve the economic process to make sense, but can't because we would all lose money if we did. Hysterical scientific exerts aside, it doesn't exist outside of our collective heads. So at best its a pseudo science of religious proportions, at worst, it will turn us into a globally warmed suicide cult en mass. ;-) — Steve Merrick

The ancient greeks called all of those stars and planets in our night sky. "Wanderers." I don't think anyone has come up with a better name for all of those lovely suns. — Steve Merrick

That is the way of science and art, it is beloved by your societies and criminalised by your cultures. — Steve Merrick

Hmm what wine is this love thing that your species has, not necessary even on a good day, but like a mob of maniac limpets you cling to it. — Steve Merrick

Meanwhile in the valley, Alice was having a confusing conversation with a starling. — Steve Merrick

If I believed a giant Platypus was coming to liberate humanity and save us all, it would still make more sense than the climate denial people do ... — Steve Merrick

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The universe is just like old Sherlock Holmes and hides all of its goodies in plain sight. — Steve Merrick

This impossibility has happened and therefore isn't impossible. — Steve Merrick

If only I had objected harder, or ordered him or something. It could have been different. It should have been different. None of this was meant to happen this way ... — Steve Merrick

Think of humanity and you see an idea, and think idea and you see imagination, and imagination is everything guys n gals — Steve Merrick

Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy. — Steve Merrick

It just makes more sense if you base your personal life logic on science. — Steve Merrick

No Navigator, we are just going with the flow of it all.
007 In The Navigator by Steve Merrick — Steve Merrick

Look in Kego's defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn't for him.
Jenny Smith In The Navigator by Steve Merrick — Steve Merrick

Talking Sea horses would be ridiculous — Steve Merrick

Is that Saturn. I thought the rings would be bigger?! — Steve Merrick

Finding a protest without placards is like photographing a hippie without a bong. — Steve Merrick

When broken minds embrace any hypothetical god then what you get is a proportionally broken result. — Steve Merrick

I don't know how far it got, but it looked pretty flightworthy from where I was standing, — Steve Merrick

Understanding is the lock pick of knowledge. — Steve Merrick

I have zero respect for knowledge, that's what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve, Knowledge is just facts and shit. Mostly irrelevant.
Kego O'Grady in The Navigator By Steve Merrick — Steve Merrick

Being quite a Darwinian creature feature I have to add, that only the fittest of survival will finish this book anyway, — Steve Merrick

I have found repeatedly hitting my head with a mallet doesn't help at all, so i am open to suggestions. — Steve Merrick

Elections? You can't ignore them and you can't escape them. — Steve Merrick

Ignoring global warming is like crossing a road blindfolded. — Steve Merrick

Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse ... — Steve Merrick

You may have bats in your belfry but I am more concerned by what may be buried in your cellar. — Steve Merrick

Writing is like headlice, impossible to fully cure. — Steve Merrick

Politics.
It used to mean something, but it is now merely an abstract part of the entertainments industry. — Steve Merrick

Being a hermit involves a lot of what we would call routine tasks taken to an extreme, even the morning flush of the toilet becomes a ritual. — Steve Merrick

It's all about emotions, they rule us all. The way we perceive reality is linked to how happy or sad we are, it even affects our perception of time, so this is an emotional problem and I am unable to fathom it at all. — Steve Merrick

As a photo-journalist your presence anywhere is as welcome as turd falling into a Ming vase. — Steve Merrick

Party politics is nothing more than the collision of mass preconceptions. — Steve Merrick

MY GAZELLES ARE ALL IN ROW, (But they run off a lot)
Kego O'Grady — Steve Merrick

The real problem is not in the Quran itself, but the accepted element of divine revelation that has enabled successive and rather dodgy regimes to use the Quran as an argument against freedom of speech or thought or freedom of anything. Thats the larger problem because if you walk into the global and deny freedom on the grounds that god didn't predict its evolution as a concept, then you can pretty much read a call for violence into a pingu anime or a winnie the pooh book — Steve Merrick

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed. — Steve Merrick

Truth.
In a court of law it is little more than an interpretive tool, in reality, there are no absolutes in life, and any truth will change over time, at the end of the day, if it hurts its bad if it doesn't hurt its good, and truth sort of lurks in between those two extremes. — Steve Merrick

Where we are as a species is very far away from where I am as an individual, and I am many miles away from where I want to be. — Steve Merrick

I also have to add that if Rembrandt had been given a camera then that guys understanding of light and form would have blown the rest of us shooters into a black hole of despair. — Steve Merrick

Zoom Zoom said Mr Photon oblivious to the mere mortal problems of math — Steve Merrick

Corruption.
like anything it is systematic, and without a level of corruption ost societies would seize up, the levels of accepted/expected political corruption don't even raise eyebrows anymore, especially when it runs parallel to our economic systems, so I guess we are stuck with it. — Steve Merrick

is she some kind of efficient incompetent. — Steve Merrick

Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions ... — Steve Merrick

Death stalks all of us by default. — Steve Merrick

As a nation the people of this lovely island called Britain, are at the point where even one honest politician could give us a collective and conceptual nervous breakdown. — Steve Merrick

His universe was an analogue being, probably as out of date as the gods are. — Steve Merrick

If planet Earth could get legal aid, then humanity would be facing the biggest malpractice suite in this spiral arm of our universe. — Steve Merrick

I feel strangely selfish to say that I am saddened that one of my favourite land mammals the rough Lemurs will be extinct soon. I guess with the loving weights of human endeavour it should just be expected and then we can all label yet another extinction as progress ... — Steve Merrick

Parliament/Congress.
less entertaining than paint drying, but more dangerous than any minefield is. — Steve Merrick

How did I get where I am. If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself. — Steve Merrick

Ok if they had a problem their system of parties basically took polarised positions about it, and if you look at them like they were an atom, then call the problem the protons, and the parties electrons, all that they could do was orbit the problem doing absolutely nothing about it. Are you following my thought chain here? — Steve Merrick

With the caution of a gazelle I looked to the closed door ahead of it, and feeling a tickle of fear in my knotted stomach I entered this tube. — Steve Merrick

Well if its the right way round she should push thats all. — Steve Merrick

Well who can truly understand politics any more, ever since they all went professional it's all sort of blurred with the entertainments industry. — Steve Merrick

Gravity (Terms and conditions apply) — Steve Merrick

Pat the little Spaceman on the head and get him to shut up, so we can get on with the important works of making the very same mistakes we made on planet Earth in the first place! — Steve Merrick

I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence. — Steve Merrick

Democracy. For something that has no specific dictionary definition, it is as open to interpretation as any holy book is, and as wide open to as many translative abuses, yet without any definitive definition the process means something very different to every person it impacts upon. I would add that until we get an accurate definition the word is meaningless, and when the process is so open to interpretation that the Koch Bros can buy it, legally, without any fuss, that action in itself is not democratic, but neither is it illegal? All that before i hit the dangers of party politics ... — Steve Merrick

Ok is there anyone here who isn't injured?" She let the silence last a bit longer theatrically, then laughed. "Why are we still here?" Nods of confusion and one derisory snort later she laughed again. "Ok are we or are we not frakking commonwealth soldiers? Have we or have we not survived repeated balls ups throughout all of our careers." One wolf whistle and a lot of nods. "Are we going to give up. — Steve Merrick

Now to reach the point where one evolved technological monkey is typing these words on a keyboard and hoping another evolved technological monkey is bored enough to read them, has taken about 4.34 billion years of planetary evolution. — Steve Merrick

NONE OF THIS IS REAL EXCEPT THE LESSONS YOU LEARN — Steve Merrick

If crisis was a cake, then our politicians are globally its baker. — Steve Merrick

These hooves were made for walking. — Steve Merrick

Tried to figure a logic of it, but the dots had collapsed like marbles and that had been good — Steve Merrick

I would wish you gods speed but I don't want you to waste time looking for him. — Steve Merrick