Michael Crichton Quotes: 22

• 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.

• Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

  State of Fear

• It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

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

  Jurassic Park

• No one escapes from life alive.

  Congo

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

  Jurassic Park

• Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

• Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

  Next

• Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

• 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.

  Eaters of the Dead

• You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

  Jurassic Park

• They didn't understand what they were doing.I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

  Prey

• Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

  Next

• Friendships are nice. So is competence.

  Disclosure

• Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

  Jurassic Park

• Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

  State of Fear

• I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

• He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

  Jurassic Park

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

• Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

  The Lost World

• The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.

  Eaters of the Dead

• La actual preocupación casi histérica por la seguridad es en el mejor de los casos un derroche de recursos y un obstáculo para el espíritu humano, y en el peor de los casos una invitación al totalitarismo. Se necesita con urgencia educación pública.

  State of Fear