Science Quotes by Michael Crichton

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

— Michael Crichton

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

— Michael Crichton

Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.

— Michael Crichton

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

— Michael Crichton

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

— Michael Crichton

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

— Michael Crichton

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

— Michael Crichton

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

— Michael Crichton

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

— Michael Crichton

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

— Michael Crichton

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

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

— Michael Crichton

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end…

— Michael Crichton

“In the end, it became clear that all scientists were participants in a participatory universe which did not allow anyone to be…

— Michael Crichton

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not…

— Michael Crichton

“It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is…

— Michael Crichton

“Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if…

— Michael Crichton

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we…

— Michael Crichton

“They just posture and pontificate. Nobody tests. Nobody does field research. Nobody dares to solve the problems—because the solution might contradict your…

— Michael Crichton

That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with…

— Michael Crichton

“Astronauts leave trash on the moon. There is always some proof that scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a…

— Michael Crichton

“In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the…

— Michael Crichton

“You know what’s wrong with scientific power?” Malcolm said. “It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich…

— Michael Crichton

“This may be why Einstein once said; "Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above…

— Michael Crichton

The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed…

— Michael Crichton

“The ultimate lesson is that science isn’t special – at least not anymore. Maybe back when Einstein talked to Niels Bohr, and…

— Michael Crichton

“No, my point is that life on earth can take of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years…

— Michael Crichton

“A third reason scientists are reluctant to examine paranormal phenomena is that they appear to contradict known physical laws. What is the…

— Michael Crichton

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that…

— Michael Crichton

The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires…

— Michael Crichton

Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted…

— Michael Crichton

“In the past, pure scientists took a snobbish view of business. They saw the pursuit of money as intellectually uninteresting, suited only…

— Michael Crichton

“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.…

— Michael Crichton

“But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is…

— Michael Crichton

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. —MARK…

— Michael Crichton

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

— Michael Crichton

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of…

— Michael Crichton

“In a sense, he thought, all we consist of is memories. Our personalities are constructed from memories, our lives are organized around…

— Michael Crichton

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science.…

— Michael Crichton

“Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn’t…

— Michael Crichton