Quotes by Michael Crichton

“Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.”

“We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.”

“They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.”

“Its not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.”

“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine]”

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

“Books arent written - theyre rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasnt quite done it.”

“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.”

“In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.”

No one escapes from life alive.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

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.

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

You cant get decent Mexican food in DC.

Sometimes I think everyones an attorney.

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.

Its better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

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.

Anyone who says he knows Gods intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

He prays because he knows he doesnt control it. Hes at the mercy of it.