There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not… — 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
Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or… — 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
Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes,… — 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
