Michael Crichton Quotes - Page 9

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• You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.

  Michael Crichton

  Answers, Gains, Knows

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.387, Vintage

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• Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, May, Measurement

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

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• But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their adaptation was behavior, socially determined. That behavior required learning. In a sense, among higher animals adaptive fitness was no longer transmitted to the next generation by DNA at all. It was now carried by teaching.

  Michael Crichton

  Teaching, Animal, Dna

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.

  Michael Crichton

  Rebel, Want, Feels

  Michael Crichton (2007). “Next”, HarperCollins UK

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• Friendships are nice. So is competence.

  Michael Crichton

  Nice, Competence

  Michael Crichton (1996). “Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels”, Wings

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• Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

  Michael Crichton

  Stress, Men, Fool

  Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.224, Vintage

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• She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist.

  Michael Crichton

  Order, Long, Labs

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• At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

  Michael Crichton

  Jobs, Writing, Young

  Michael Crichton (2002). “Prey”

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