"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect……" — Michael Crichton
"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."
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152 Quotes by Michael Crichton
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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…
- Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and…
- In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We…
- 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.
- 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…
- In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while…