“...we haven't had any accidents for months now...Everything on that island is perfectly fine.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.” — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“They're both technicians. They have what I call 'thintelligence'. They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Consider cotton prices," Malcolm said. "There are good records of cotton prices going back more than a hundred years. When you study… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Why did Dodgson just stand there like that? That's not the way to act around predators. You get caught around lions, you… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something. — Michael Crichton Copy Share
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
“it is important to recognize that the behavior of the two antagonists mirrors each other, like a Rorschach inkblot. The value of a Rorschach… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens. — Michael Crichton Copy Share
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
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,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds. — Michael Crichton Copy Share
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties. — Michael Crichton Copy Share
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right. — Michael Crichton Copy Share
