...environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
...scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step. You… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There is an idea of, you know, informing people about some emerging things. And part of that is just a reflection of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe?… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a… — 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
