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

  Michael Crichton

  Trials, Importance, Attorney

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• It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.

  Michael Crichton

  People, Age, Might

  Michael Crichton (1999). “Timeline”

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• To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

  Michael Crichton

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Healthy

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.95, Vintage

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• Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

  Michael Crichton

  Scare, Sometimes, Hell

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

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• Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Discovery, Games

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

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• Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

  Michael Crichton

  School, Kids, Airports

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

  Michael Crichton

  Track, Belief, Chaos

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

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• Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly.

  Michael Crichton

  Smart, Portraits, Done

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• 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.

  Michael Crichton

  School, Parenting, Earth

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• You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Jurassic Park, Strange

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• I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.

  Michael Crichton

  Men, Ideas, Filters

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.10, Vintage

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• One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

  Michael Crichton

  Expectations, Trouble, Theory

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

  Michael Crichton

  Science, Agendas

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• Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Important, Tools

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

  Michael Crichton

  Blood, Drawing, Literature

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.25, Vintage

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• Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

  Michael Crichton

  Hard Work, Science, Preparation

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.184, Vintage

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• Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

  Michael Crichton

  Safety, Patriotism, Lasts

  Michael Crichton (2000). “Timeline”

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• Science can't tell you why anything happens.

  Michael Crichton

  Happens, Things Happen

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton (Postscript), 1988.

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• Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

  Michael Crichton

  Stress, Men, Fool

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.224, Vintage

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• Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

  Michael Crichton

  Blind Spots, Medicine, People

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

  Michael Crichton

  Results, Relevant, Consensus

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003.

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

  Michael Crichton

  Risk, Survival, Outcomes

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

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• The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

  Michael Crichton

  Spiritual, Animal, Eden

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

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• It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

  Michael Crichton

  Cutting, Easy, Humans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

  Michael Crichton

  Stories, Species, Knows

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