Quotes from Michael Crichton

Obsession is just a variety of addiction.

Esa idea de mantener interconectado al mundo entero equivaldrá a la muerte en masa. Todo biólogo sabe que los pequeños grupos aislados evolucionan más rápidamente.

You create many [dinosaurs] in a very short time, never learn anything about them, yet you expect them to do your bidding, because you made them and you therefore think you own them; you forget that they are alive, they have an intelligence of their own, and they may not do your bidding, and you forget how little you know about them....

Over the path, a crude hand-painted sign read: "Welcome to Jurassic Park.

You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Earth has survived everything in its time. It will certainly survive us. To the earth...a million years is nothing. This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale. We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try. We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

The dinosaur will then finish the victim off at its leisure—making Dilophosaurus a beautiful but deadly addition to the animals you see here at Jurassic Park.

Los seres humanos nunca piensan por su cuenta, les resulta incómodo. En general, los miembros de nuestra especie se limitan a repetir lo que oyen y se desconciertan ante cualquier punto de vista.

civilization doesn't separate us from nature, Ted. Civilization protects us from nature. Because

You know why the scientists would try to do that? It's because they want to do research, of course. That's all they ever want to do, is research. Not to accomplish anything. Not to make any progress. Just do research. Well, they have a surprise coming to them.

El rasgo humano característico no es la conciencia sino el conformismo, y el resultado característico es la guerra religiosa. Otros animales luchan por el territorio o el alimento; los seres humanos, en cambio, son los únicos en el reino animal que luchan por sus creencias.

We looked at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing. Of course we knew it was changing but we behaved as if it wasn't. We denied the reality of change. So change always surprised us.

But—as history has proven time and again—in the hands of human beings, increasing power is increasingly dangerous.

it's because America has become a land without substance. We let our manufacturing go. We don't make things anymore. When you manufacture products, you add value to raw materials, and you literally create wealth. But America has stopped doing that. Americans make money now by paper manipulation

Pero la ausencia de pruebas no es prueba de ausencia.

Como bien sabes, una cosa puede ser precisa o imprecisa, independientemente de tus opiniones.

En el mundo moderno se considera más grave matar a un tigre que a tus padres. Los tigres tienen abogados.

Uno no viene a un sitio lleno de pollos venenosos si no está seguro de que los vehículos responderán.

Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

Así comenzó todo: unos simios corrientes asomándose sobre la hierba.

Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time.

Inevitably, you react to your own work—you like it, you don't like it, you think it's interesting or boring—and it is difficult to accept that those reactions may be unreliable. In my experience, they are. I mistrust either wild enthusiasm or deep depression. I have had the best success with material that I was sort of neutral about …

Durante toda tu vida oirás hablar a la gente, y la mayoría de las veces, probablemente el noventa y cinco por ciento de las veces, lo que la gente te diga será falso.

One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.