The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Although knowledge of how things work is sufficient to allow manipulation of nature, what humans really want to know is why things… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“...the natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“This may be why Einstein once said; "Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind." The fact is that we need the insights of… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us… — Michael Crichton Copy Share
“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they… — 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 things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but… — 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 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
