Michael Crichton Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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

2. Now King had all the accoutrements of success: a Porsche, a mortgage, a divorce, a kid he saw on weekends. The Lost World

3. 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

4. Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney. State of Fear

5. The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. State of Fear

6. You can't get decent Mexican food in DC. State of Fear

7. يجب أن يكون الانسان حكيما باعتدال ولكن ليس مفرط الحكمة حتى لا يعرف قدره مسبقا Eaters of the Dead

8. Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species. The Lost World

9. But I did not expect science merely to extend lifespan, feed the hungry, cure disease, and shrink the world with jets and cell phones. I also expected science to banish the evils of human thought—prejudice and superstition, irrational beliefs and false fears. I expected science to be, in Carl Sagan’s memorable phrase, a candle in a demon-haunted world. And here, I am not so pleased with the impact of science. Rather than serving as a cleansing force, science has in some instances been seduced by the more ancient lures of politics and publicity. Some of the demons that haunt our world in recent years are invented by scientists. The world has not benefited from permitting these demons to escape. State of Fear

10. But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system before it, science is starting not to fit the world any more. Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it. And our world starts to seem polluted in fundamental ways---air, and water, and land---because of ungovernable science. Jurassic Park

11. Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always. Jurassic Park

12. Friendships are nice. So is competence. Disclosure

13. God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs. Jurassic Park

14. I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. 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. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

15. 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.

16. Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth. Jurassic Park

17. Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Next

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

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

20. 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