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People Quotes by Michael Crichton
- The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed…
- ...environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s
- In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We…
- The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the…
- Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who…
- People were so naive about plants, Ellie thought. They just chose plants for appearance, as they would choose a picture for the wall. It never…
- You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
- 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 your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
- Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely…
- Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a…
- Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the…
- It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
- Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in…
- A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle