“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“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, quote from State of Fear
“False fears are a plague, a modern plague!”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“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.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Even if you don’t believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“I have more respect for people who change their views after acquiring new information than for those who cling to views they held thirty years ago. The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don’t.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“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.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Banning DDT killed more people than Hitler,”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can’t worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Eugenics research was funded by the Carnegie Foundation, and later by the Rockefeller Foundation. The”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“based on UN statistics, is that before the DDT ban, malaria had become almost a minor illness. Fifty thousand deaths a year worldwide. A few years later, it was once again a global scourge. Fifty million people have died since the ban,”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“If there’s anything worse than a limousine liberal,” Morton said, “it’s a Gulfstream environmentalist.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“They just posture and pontificate. Nobody tests. Nobody does field research. 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, quote from State of Fear
“I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the inevitability of unintended consequences.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Once again, vague terminology helped conceal what was really going on.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“But as Alston Chase put it, “when the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“G.K. Chesterton said (in a somewhat different context), “If you believe in nothing, you’ll believe in anything.” That”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“Save the Earth” and beneath that, “There’s Nowhere Else to Go.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. —MARK TWAIN”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
“for the last fifteen years we have been under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and far more pervasive. I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. And”
― Michael Crichton, quote from State of Fear
Michael Crichton
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Born date October 23, 1942
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“What is it about her that is so goddamned special?”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Obsidian Butterfly
“Under the Volcano” embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab, and every page of it pulsates on Out of Body Auto-Reply, that style of pure Lowry that points at once backward, to all European literature, and forward, to the mother of all nervous breakdowns.”
― Malcolm Lowry, quote from Under the Volcano
“There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are unreliable; with nothing to anchor them, there is nothing to stop them drifting in opposite directions. If it is string that binds, it will eventually snap and the points will separate; if elastic, they will continue to part, further and further, until the strain reaches its limit and they are pulled back with such speed that they cannot help but collide with devastating force.”
― Kate Morton, quote from The House at Riverton
“By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, quote from Infidel
“An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from Anathem
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