I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence. Michael Crichton More Quotes by Michael Crichton More Quotes From Michael Crichton 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 ninety life people The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die. Michael Crichton nature expectations giving 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 perspective cutting feelings Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results Michael Crichton results caring desire 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 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 age might people 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 No one escapes from life alive. Michael Crichton alive Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind. Michael Crichton body mind exercise Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Michael Crichton physics humans integrity Life will find a way. Michael Crichton jurassic-park life way 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 chaos track belief When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately? Michael Crichton important belief thinking All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. Michael Crichton psychology problem reason Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back. Michael Crichton real doe looks I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. Michael Crichton drawing literature blood Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious. Michael Crichton religious giving believe Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Michael Crichton skepticism situation enough 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 epa hazards hands 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 next-steps progress discipline
