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Michael Crichton Quotes

«If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree»
«Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.»
«We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.»
«They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.»
Author: Michael Crichton (Writer) | Keywords: focused
«It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.»
«I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine]»
«Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.»
«Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.»
«Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.»
«In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.»