In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought. Michael Crichton More Quotes by Michael Crichton More Quotes From Michael Crichton 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 parentingearthschool I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Michael Crichton fashionmorningbelieve When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility. Michael Crichton powerfulresponsibilityhurt 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 portraitssmartdone Theories are just fantasies. And they change. Michael Crichton fantasystatisticstheory They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. Michael Crichton tombstonehumansrace 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 jurassic-parkstrangebelieve Good novels are not written, they're rewritten! Michael Crichton writtennovel That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest. Michael Crichton facesscienceworld Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me! Michael Crichton agendasscience The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period. Michael Crichton brokescientistperiods 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 doctorsentrepreneurpatient 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 angelresponsibilityevil And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day. Michael Crichton errandsqualityrunning 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 differencesmensex Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone. Michael Crichton locationwritingbook Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all. Michael Crichton measurementmayreality 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 literaturematterway Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon. Michael Crichton speciesstoriesknows We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead. Michael Crichton spheresfantasyneeds
