Michael Crichton Quotes
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.
The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.
Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.
They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.
I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.
You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.
When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.