A collection of thoughts and quotations by Michael Crichton on history, science, fiction, fear, death, ontology, humanity, life, meaning, nature, human and bigotry.
76 Awesome Michael Crichton Quotes About Life, History & More
John Michael Crichton was an American physician, novelist, screen play writer, director and producers who became one of the most popular and best-selling authors in the world during the course of his career that spanned several decades. Crichton was one of the most famous authors in science and medical fiction and according to some estimates, 200 million copies of his books have been sold globally and many of them have also been turned into successful films. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School and took up a fellowship at Salk Institute of Biological Studies, but he did not pursue a career in medicine and instead decided to become a writer. Crichton’s novels are famous for the depiction of futuristic technology, disasters due to man’s inability to handle it and elements of biotechnology. Some of his famous works include the novels like ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘Pirate Latitudes’, ‘Timeline’, ‘Rising Sun’, ‘The Lost World’, ‘Disclosure Congo’, ‘Dragon Teeth’ and ‘The Andromeda Strain’ among others. ‘Jurassic Park’, the movie based on his novel which went on to become one of the biggest grossing movies of all time while the medical drama 'ER' became hugely popular as well. He noted his observations over diverse subjects in his works and writings; many of his observations and thoughts became popular quotes. The below collection of Michael Crichton most famous quotes have been excerpted from his writings, books, novels, interviews and thoughts. Here is a collection of Michael Crichton quotes that would give you a glimpse into his remarkable mind.
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.
Michael Crichton
God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.
Let's be clear. 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
Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
Michael Crichton
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.
Michael Crichton
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
Michael Crichton
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.
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.
Michael Crichton
It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
Michael Crichton
Power is neither male or female.
Michael Crichton
This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.
Michael Crichton
In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell.
Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.
Michael Crichton
Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.
Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.
Michael Crichton
Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.
Michael Crichton
The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.
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.
He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.
Michael Crichton
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
Michael Crichton
You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.
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.
Michael Crichton
Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
Michael Crichton
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.
Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.
Michael Crichton
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
Michael Crichton
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
Michael Crichton
Obsession is just a variety of addiction ~ Ian Malcolm
Michael Crichton
Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women.
