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Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.
Michael Crichton
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Michael Crichton
Age: 66 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: November 4
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Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away : it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline.
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They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
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Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
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It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
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We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.
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Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.
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We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.
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They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.
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If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.
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To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.
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