Life will find a way. — Michael Crichton

All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don’t you take it away from yourself. — Michael Crichton

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety–five percent of the time, what they’ll tell you will be wrong. — Michael Crichton

No one escapes from life alive. — Michael Crichton

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they’ll choose life everytime. — Michael Crichton

Life is wonderful. It’s a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn’t really anything else. — Michael Crichton

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy. — Michael Crichton

Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory. — Michael Crichton

I believe my life has a value, and i don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don’t want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? — Michael Crichton

When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It’s my life. It’s my responsibility. — Michael Crichton

Even if you don’t believe in 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

Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. — Michael Crichton

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You’re absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You’re psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone. — Michael Crichton

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. — Michael Crichton

Story of our species…everyone knows it’s coming, but not so soon. — Michael Crichton

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time. — Michael Crichton

Auschwitz exists because of politicized science. — Michael Crichton

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses. — Michael Crichton

Science can’t tell you why anything happens. — Michael Crichton

In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. — Michael Crichton

Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That’s the game in science. — 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

I was raised with the idea that if you’re not smart enough to do science you can do politics. — Michael Crichton

Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. — Michael Crichton

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right. — Michael Crichton

Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical.Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind. — Michael Crichton

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. — 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

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. — Michael Crichton

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always. — Michael Crichton

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. — Michael Crichton

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. — Michael Crichton

In a media–saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims. — Michael Crichton

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. — Michael Crichton

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. — Michael Crichton

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

That’s human nature. Nobody does anything until it’s too late. — Michael Crichton

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem. — Michael Crichton

They didn’t understand what they were doing. I’m afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. — Michael Crichton

Anyone who says he knows God’s intention is showing a lot of very human ego. — Michael Crichton

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. — Michael Crichton

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable. — Michael Crichton

It’s not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw. — Michael Crichton

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. — Michael Crichton

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality. — Michael Crichton

Reality is always greater–much greater–than what we know, than whatever we can say about it. — Michael Crichton

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal. — Michael Crichton

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. — Michael Crichton

Readers probably haven’t heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. — Michael Crichton