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Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton (/ˈkraɪtən/; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter, film director and producer best known for his work in the science fiction, thriller, and medical fiction genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films.

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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.

Inspirational, Life, Air, Alive, Sun

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

May, Measurement, Method, Reality, Taking

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong?

Hammond, Karate, Night, Place, Simple, Thinking

Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel.

Feels, Nobody, Rebel, Want

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

Growth, Infants, States, United States, Years

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Activity, Corruptible, Humans, Integrity, Physics, Science

The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.

Revealed, Screw, Screw You, Screws, System

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

Fear, Laughs, Men, Pig, Stupid

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

Give, Giving Up, Healthy, Responsibility

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

Adventure, Discovery, Exciting, Species, Years

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

Apes, Except, Littles, Nothing, Running

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.

Alive, Choices, Immoral, Morality, Person, Technology

Kids didn't have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn't have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn't understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.

Airports, Digital, Hauling, Kids, School, World

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

Ego, Human, Integrity, Intention, Says, Showing

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

Environment, Environments, Ideas, Live Every Day, Virtual

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this. ' Never happens.

Deserve, Happens, Heard, Know, Said

I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.

Epa, Hand, Hands, Hazard, Hazards, Known

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.

Fresh, Future, Past, Thinking, Writing, Wrong

I hadn't traveled with the intention of learning about anything except myself. And the real point of all this travel was not what I had come to believe or disbelieve about the wider world, but what I had learned about myself.

Believe, Except, Real, World

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.

Belief, Chaos, Scientific, Throws, Track

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