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Famous quotes by Michael Crichton
We all live everyday in virtual environments defined by our ideas.
- Michael Crichton, Disclosure
If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You're a leaf that doesn't
know it's part of a tree.
- Michael Crichton, Timeline
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
- Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
We are witnessing the end of the scietific era. Science, like other outmoded systems, is destroying itself. As it gains power, it proves itself incapable of handling that power. Because things are going very fast now. Fifty
years ago, everyone was gaga over the atomic bomb. That was power. No one could imagine anything more. Yet, a bare decade after the bomb, we began to have genetic power. And genetic power is far more potent than atomic power.
And it ... will force everyone to ask the same question - what should I do with my power? - which is the very question science says it cannot answer.
- Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
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.
- Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
Truly, can you imagine anything
more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting at little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud.
- Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
The characteristic human trait is not
awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.
- Michael Crichton, The Lost World
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