The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“No, my point is that life on earth can take of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your… — 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
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
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing . . . I don't want… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The fact that the patients were complex human beings with a rich life beyond the hospital never really sank into the consciousness… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Straight linearity, which we have come to take for granted in everything from physics to fiction, simply does not exist. Linearity is… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Earth is four-and-a-half-billion-years-old. There's been… — 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
And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Even if you don’t believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“it was "the hardest damn thing I ever did in my life. I don't care how many feathers a man wears in… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
