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Science Quotes by Michael Crichton
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history.…
- In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.
- We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday…
- 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…
- Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at…
- Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.
- In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.
- Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!
- Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
- Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.
- God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
- Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.
- I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid…
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