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Michael Crichton Inspirational Quotes (109)

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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.
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They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.
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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.
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You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.
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Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
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It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
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Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.
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And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
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To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.
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In order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.
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The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
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I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
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At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
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If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
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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.
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In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.
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Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.
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We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.
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There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.
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At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore writing code is a young person’s job.
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Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.
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Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either specially hated by other animals or specially cherished. Instead of the truth, which is that he's just another animal on the plain. A smart one, but just another animal.
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Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!
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One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.
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