Michael Crichton Quotes

You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...

What is your itinerary?""To meet my maker.""Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to...

I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went...

I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hi...

Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpas...

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alte...

My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. ...

In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and fu...

... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the ...

These forays into the real world sharpened his view that scientists needed the widest possible educa...

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the...

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't real...

A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people ...

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most imp...

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings n...

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

[..]Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."Yes? Why is that?"Because ...

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one depend...

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt...

Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth...

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it a...

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the vil...

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for mo...

Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurate...

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single per...

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memori...

They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human ra...

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed...

Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organiza...

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary m...

There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can...

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because...

If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do...

Straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything from physics to fiction, si...

The commercialization of molecular biology is the most stunning ethical event in the history of scie...

You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of pow...

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands t...

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaur...

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system be...

Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.

These animals are genetically engineered to be unable to survive in the real world. They can only li...

...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.

They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fi...

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

All this attempt to control... We are talking about Western attitudes that are five hundred years ol...

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assh...

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is anti...

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a ...

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears ...

The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a ho...

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

He did not want an affair with his boss. He did not even want a one-night stand. Because what always...

Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

No one escapes from life alive.

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run ma...

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. ...

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoe...

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It’s ...

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in s...

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary r...

In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which ...

But don’t you find it boring to wear only two colors?” “Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe ...

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to acc...

Well,” Harry said, “look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space...

they'll reregulate within ten years. There'll be a string of crashes, and they'll do it. the free ma...

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.I don't want to ...

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part...

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on ...

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is rel...

Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to acce...

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called i...

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c...

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Ea...

You arrogant little snot (John Hammond)