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Michael Crichton QUOTES

1 " No one escapes from life alive. "

― Michael Crichton , Congo

2 " Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me! "

― Michael Crichton

3 " Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants. "

― Michael Crichton , State of Fear

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

― Michael Crichton , State of Fear

5 " You can't get decent Mexican food in DC. "

― Michael Crichton , State of Fear

6 " Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney. "

― Michael Crichton , State of Fear

7 " Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk. "

― Michael Crichton , Eaters of the Dead

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

― Michael Crichton

9 " Cure the symptoms, cure the disease. "

― Michael Crichton

10 " The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing. "

― Michael Crichton , Eaters of the Dead

Michael Crichton QUOTES

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

― Michael Crichton , Next

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

― Michael Crichton , Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

13 " A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics. "

― Michael Crichton

14 " If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do young people discover that many aspects of life are uncertain, mysterious, and even unknowable. If you have a chance to play in nature, if you are sprayed by a beetle, if the color of a butterfly's wing comes off on your fingers, if you watch a caterpillar spin its cocoon-- you come away with a sense of mystery and uncertainty. The more you watch, the more mysterious the natural world becomes, and the more you realize how little you know. Along with its beauty, you may also come to experience its fecundity, its wastefulness, aggressiveness, ruthlessness, parasitism, and its violence. These qualities are not well-conveyed in textbooks. "

― Michael Crichton , Micro

15 " These forays into the real world sharpened his view that scientists needed the widest possible education. He used to say, “How can you design for people if you don’t know history and psychology? You can’t. Because your mathematical formulas may be perfect, but the people will screw it up. And if that happens, it means you screwed it up.” He peppered his lectures with quotations from Plato, Chaka Zulu, Emerson, and Chang-tzu.

But as a professor who was popular with his students—and who advocated general education—Thorne found himself swimming against the tide. The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. In this climate, being liked by your students was a sign of shallowness; and interest in real-world problems was proof of intellectual poverty and a distressing indifference to theory. "

― Michael Crichton , The Lost World (Jurassic Park #2)

16 " Friendships are nice. So is competence. "

― Michael Crichton , Disclosure

17 " He did not want an affair with his boss. He did not even want a one-night stand. Because what always happened was that people found out, gossip at the water cooler, meaningful looks in the hallway. And sooner or later the spouses found out. It always happened. Slammed doors, divorce lawyers, child custody. "

― Michael Crichton , Disclosure

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

― Michael Crichton , State of Fear

19 " God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs. "

― Michael Crichton , Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

20 " Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always. "

― Michael Crichton , Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)