Michael Crichton Quotes

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• It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.
• Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did…
• Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are…
• In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on…
• That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.
• Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.
• In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
• Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.
• Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
• I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.
• Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
• The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator…
• In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and…
• Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of…
• I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
• Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda…
• Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
• Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.
• Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and…

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