Michael Crichton Quotes - Page 7

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• Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

  Michael Crichton

  Adventure, Discovery, Years

  "Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities: Science Views Media". Speech to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Anaheim, California, January 25, 1999.

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• No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

  Michael Crichton

  Men, Evil

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

  Michael Crichton

  Ideas, World, Modern

  Michael Crichton's Remarks to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.

  Michael Crichton

  Writing, Machines, Use

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• There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.

  Michael Crichton

  Energy, Body, Kind

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.382, Vintage

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• God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

  Michael Crichton

  Science, Men, Jurassic Park

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• 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 occurred to them that plants were actually living things, busily performing all the living functions of respiration, ingestion, excretion, reproduction---and defense.

  Michael Crichton

  Wall, People, Defense

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• The best doctors found a middle position where they were neither overwhelmed by their feelings nor estranged from them. That was the most difficult position of all, and the precise balance - neither too detached nor too caring - was something few learned.

  Michael Crichton

  Caring, Doctors, Feelings

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.25, Vintage

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• They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Jurassic Park, Situation

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Science can't tell you why anything happens.

  Michael Crichton

  Happens, Things Happen

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton (Postscript), 1988.

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• 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 kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong?

  Michael Crichton

  Simple, Night, Thinking

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• Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

  Michael Crichton

  Beer, Ice, Drunk

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”

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• Power is neither male or female.

  Michael Crichton

  Males, Female

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• One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, May, Measurement

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.

  Michael Crichton

  Book, Writing, Location

  "King of the techno-thriller" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?

  Michael Crichton

  Crazy, Careers, Doctors

  Michael Crichton's Speech at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Anaheim, California, www.abc.net.au. January 25, 1999.

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• 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 few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared people to be able to imagine the meaning of eighty million years - the length of time that had passed since this little animal had died.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Animal, Years

  Michael Crichton (1997). “Michael Crichton's Jurassic World”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

  Michael Crichton

  Mexican, Mexican Food, Decent

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• A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

  Michael Crichton

  Religious, Origin Of Life, Other Worlds

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• One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

  Michael Crichton

  Fate, Accepting, Uncertain

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• 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 police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.

  Michael Crichton

  Government, Police, Bankers

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• There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

  Michael Crichton

  Fear, May, Causes

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• The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.

  Michael Crichton

  Poor Quality, Doors, Media

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Littles, Apes

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• Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

  Michael Crichton

  Expectations, Way, Mysterious Ways

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