Michael Crichton Quotes - Page 4

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• The experience of climbing Kilimanjaro affected me so powerfully that, for a long time afterward, if I caught myself saying, "I'm not a person who likes to do that activity, eat that food, listen to that music," I would automatically go out and do what I imagined I didn't like. Generally I found I was wrong about myself - I liked what I thought I wouldn't like. And even if I didn't like the particular experience, I learned I liked having new experiences.

  Michael Crichton

  Climbing, New Experiences, Long

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• Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

  Michael Crichton

  Exercise, Mind, Body

  Michael Crichton (1999). “Timeline”

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• Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

  Michael Crichton

  Fear, Stupid, Men

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. 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.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Silly, Moving

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

  Michael Crichton

  Disease, Causes, Illness

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.94, Vintage

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• False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

  Michael Crichton

  Sociology, Modern, Plague

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• 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.

  Michael Crichton

  Life, People, Ninety

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

  Michael Crichton

  Philosophy, People, Important

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• When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Important, Belief

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• You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

  Michael Crichton

  Animal, Should, Wells

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

  Michael Crichton

  Exercise, Harassment, Subordinates

  Michael Crichton (1996). “Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels”, Wings

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• In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.

  Michael Crichton

  Media, Hype, World

  Michael Crichton (2007). “Next”, HarperCollins UK

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• The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Mean, Political

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin's Lecture at the California Institute of Technology, January 17, 2003.

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• Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

  Michael Crichton

  Dream, Years, Organization

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• 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.

  Michael Crichton

  Literature, Matter, Way

  "Consensus Science and the Peer Review" by Jorge R. Barrio, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. April 28, 2009.

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• To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

  Michael Crichton

  Tools, Problem, Failing

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• Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

  Michael Crichton

  Jurassic Park, Parks, Welcome

  Kristin Kiser, Michael Crichton, David Koepp (1993). “Jurassic Park: Raptor attack”, Price Stern Sloan

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

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  Thinking, Knows

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

  Michael Crichton

  Our World, True Power, Profound

  Michael Crichton (2008). “Timeline”, p.480, Random House

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• Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth - that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric.

  Michael Crichton

  Party, Differences, People

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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

  Michael Crichton

  Psychology, Problem, Reason

  Michael Crichton (1996). “Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels”, Wings

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• In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Order, People

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

  Michael Crichton

  Sides, Major Change, Majors

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• 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.

  Michael Crichton

  Jurassic Park, Might, Planets

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people each year for witchcraft. In my view, there is only one hope for humankind to emerge from what Carl Sagan called "the demon-haunted world" of our past. That hope is science.

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  Science, Past, Years

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