Michael Crichton famous quotes

03-28-2025

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk
-- Michael Crichton

#Real #Nice #Two
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.
-- Michael Crichton

#Book #Writing #Done
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
-- Michael Crichton

#Belief #Scientist #Wallets
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
-- Michael Crichton

#Death #Fear #Laughing
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.
-- Michael Crichton

#Philosophy #Reality #Animal
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.
-- Michael Crichton

#Taken #Clothes #Experience
Social control is best managed through fear.
-- Michael Crichton

#Fear #Social
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
-- Michael Crichton

#Science #Prejudice #Opinion
Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.
-- Michael Crichton

#Inspiration #Bored #Inspire
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
-- Michael Crichton

#Real #Looks #Television
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
-- Michael Crichton

#Ideas #Environment #Live Every Day
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.
-- Michael Crichton

#Integrity #Physics #Humans
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
-- Michael Crichton

#Movie #Inspiring #World
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

#Inspirational #Life #Air
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

#Territory #Way #Evolution
You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.
-- Michael Crichton

#Animal #Should #Wells
Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every few eons, some animal comes along that kills off the rest of the world, clears the decks, and lets evolution proceed to its next phase.
-- Michael Crichton

#Thinking #Animal #World
Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity... We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
-- Michael Crichton

#Thinking #Self #Views
All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.
-- Michael Crichton

#Psychology #Problem #Reason
Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.
-- Michael Crichton

#Trials #Importance #Attorney
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.
-- Michael Crichton

#Children #Important #Tools
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
-- Michael Crichton

#Drawing #Blood #Emergencies
If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
-- Michael Crichton

#Computer
Power is neither male or female.
-- Michael Crichton

#Males #Female
A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.
-- Michael Crichton

#Determination #Men #Starlight
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

#Fashion #Morning #Believe
Life will find a way.
-- Michael Crichton

#Way

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