Michael Crichton Quotes - Page 6

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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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• In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Decision, Literature

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

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• Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Firsts, Chemistry

  1969 The Andromeda Strain.

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• The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

  Michael Crichton

  Dark, Rocks, Alive

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.188, Vintage

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• Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Encounters, Events

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

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• Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

  Michael Crichton

  Cards, Nicknames, Business Card

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• Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

  Michael Crichton

  Discovery, World, Natural

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

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

  Michael Crichton

  Praying, Mercy, Knows

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

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• It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Long, Important

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Congo”, p.43, Vintage

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• Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

  Michael Crichton

  Driven, Seeking Truth, Abstraction

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

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

  Michael Crichton

  Pride, People, Accomplishment

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

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

  Michael Crichton

  Integrity, Ego, Intention

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• Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things work. Children don't ask how the sky is blue. They ask why the sky is blue.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Blue, Sky

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, Entertainment

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

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• Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.

  Michael Crichton

  Giving Up, Practice, Discipline

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

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• Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to adopt a viewpoint or perspective that is handed to us, and is not our own.

  Michael Crichton

  Cutting, Perspective, Feelings

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.504, Vintage

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• Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.

  Michael Crichton

  Swimming, Water, People

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• Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

  Michael Crichton

  Discipline, Progress, Next Steps

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

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• I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.

  Michael Crichton

  Hands, Hazards, Epa

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

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• Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

  Michael Crichton

  Doctors, Entrepreneur, Patient

  Michael Crichton (1970). “Five Patients: The Hospital Explained”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.

  Michael Crichton

  Responsibility, Angel, Evil

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Sphere”, p.335, Vintage

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• Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.

  Michael Crichton

  Sex, Men, Differences

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

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• The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Personality, Unhappy

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

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• Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

  Michael Crichton

  Technology, Choices, Alive

  Michael Crichton, Jeffery Hudson (2013). “A Case of Need: A Novel”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• Friendships are nice. So is competence.

  Michael Crichton

  Nice, Competence

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

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