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In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.
Michael Crichton
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Michael Crichton
Age: 66 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2008
Died: November 4
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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.
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Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.
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Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
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The minute we look, we cease being afraid.
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