No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing. Michael Crichton More Quotes by Michael Crichton More Quotes From Michael Crichton Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. Michael Crichton territory evolution way Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either specially hated by other animals or specially cherished. Instead of the truth, which is that he's just another animal on the plain. A smart one, but just another animal. Michael Crichton smart men believe The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery. Michael Crichton recovery doctors miracle The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Michael Crichton fantasy challenges reality I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists. Michael Crichton propaganda assumption media I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. Michael Crichton movie inspiring world The minute we look, we cease being afraid. Michael Crichton being-afraid minutes looks I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics. Michael Crichton smart political ideas In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. Michael Crichton amusement errors stories We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. Michael Crichton fear world thinking If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. Michael Crichton family life history Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. Michael Crichton academia virtue intellectual The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us. Michael Crichton survived planets The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you. Michael Crichton screw-you screws 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 important tools children Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well. Michael Crichton attorney importance trials You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Michael Crichton wells should animal A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time. Michael Crichton starlight determination men Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them. Michael Crichton asking-questions differences self 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 filters men ideas
