Michael Crichton Quotes - Page 5

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• Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

  Michael Crichton

  School, Kids, Airports

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly.

  Michael Crichton

  Smart, Portraits, Done

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• They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

  Michael Crichton

  Track, Belief, Chaos

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

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• You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.

  Michael Crichton

  School, Parenting, Earth

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• I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.

  Michael Crichton

  Men, Ideas, Filters

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.10, Vintage

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• One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

  Michael Crichton

  Expectations, Trouble, Theory

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, 1988.

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• Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!

  Michael Crichton

  Novel, Written

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• Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

  Michael Crichton

  Science, Agendas

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• 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 culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Important, Tools

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

  Michael Crichton

  Blood, Drawing, Literature

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

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• 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 people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

  Michael Crichton

  Blind Spots, Medicine, People

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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• In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.

  Michael Crichton

  Results, Relevant, Consensus

  "Aliens Cause Global Warming". Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003.

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• At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

  Michael Crichton

  Risk, Survival, Outcomes

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

  Michael Crichton

  Spiritual, Animal, Eden

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

  Michael Crichton

  Cutting, Easy, Humans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They may trade on their youthful dreams, but the truth is, they're now part of the establishment. And the establishment works to preserve the status quo. It just does.

  Michael Crichton

  Dream, Years, Organization

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• To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

  Michael Crichton

  Tools, Problem, Failing

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• The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

  Michael Crichton

  Years, Single Life, Literature

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.

  Michael Crichton

  Stories, Species, Knows

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• Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Firsts, Chemistry

  1969 The Andromeda Strain.

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• In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Decision, Literature

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

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• The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

  Michael Crichton

  Dark, Rocks, Alive

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.188, Vintage

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• Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Encounters, Events

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

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• Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

  Michael Crichton

  Cards, Nicknames, Business Card

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• Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

  Michael Crichton

  Discovery, World, Natural

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

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