Quotes from Michael Crichton

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

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'

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.

God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.

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

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Power is neither male or female.

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

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

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

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

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.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

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

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

In the postwar period, Americans turned away from quality as the principal goal of manufacturing and made cost the principal goal. Japanese, restructuring their companies, made exactly the opposite decision.

I am now very interested in computer technology as it is used currently to make games. I think this technology is very powerful and could be used in new ways.

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.