Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Skeptical scientists often point out, as Carl Sagan has, that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed wonders of fringe… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“I suspect that scientists are driven by the sense that the world out there - reality - contains a hidden order, and… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“this attempt to control … We are talking about Western attitudes that are five hundred years old. They began at the time when Florence,… — 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
...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
Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the… — 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
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
