Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
Michael Crichton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Michael Crichton
Age: 66 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: November 4
Author
Basketball Player
Film Director
Film Producer
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician Writer
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Chicago
Illinois
John Michael Crichton
Michael Douglas
Jeffery Hudson
John Lange
Tree
Family
History
Doesn
Part
Anything
Genealogy
Life
Leafs
Leaf
More quotes by Michael Crichton
Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.
Michael Crichton
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
Michael Crichton
We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.
Michael Crichton
At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
Michael Crichton
I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.
Michael Crichton
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.
Michael Crichton
Welcome...to Jurassic Park!
Michael Crichton
Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.
Michael Crichton
Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
Michael Crichton
Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
Michael Crichton
To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.
Michael Crichton
Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.
Michael Crichton
This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.
Michael Crichton
You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.
Michael Crichton
In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon his horse, and he fell attempting to dismount. Now the horse kicked him in the head, and I feared for his safety, but Ecthgow laughed and kicked the horse back.
Michael Crichton
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.
Michael Crichton
Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.
Michael Crichton
They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.
Michael Crichton
The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has too much chrome and glitz, its doors rattle, it breaks down almost immediately, and it's sold without warranty. It's flashy, but it's basically junk.
Michael Crichton
The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.
Michael Crichton
