All Michael Crichton Quotes
- You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. Assholes
- All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. All
- He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it. Control
- The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us. Certainly Survive
- You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Animal
- No one escapes from life alive. Alive
- They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens. Always Say
- Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate. Exercise
- Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference… Bases
- All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. All
- To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail. Apply
- The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you. Inspirational
- Friendships are nice. So is competence. Competence
- Good novels are not written, they're rewritten! Funny
- The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. Academic
- Geniuses never pay attention. Attention
- Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the… All
- Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties. Inspirational
- All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be… All
- For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. Adapt
- But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their… Adapt
- All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself. Accomplishment
- Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that… Along
- Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about… All
- We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. Always Thought