Laura Pierce > Laura's Quotes

“Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Absence of proof is not proof of absence.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.”
― Michael Crichton, Prey

“This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.”
― Michael Crichton, Sphere

“In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell.”
― Michael Crichton

“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?”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“The system didn't screw you. The system revealed you.”
― Michael Crichton, Disclosure

“Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.”
― Michael Crichton, Next

“All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.”
― Michael Crichton, Disclosure

“False fears are a plague, a modern plague!”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.”
― Michael Crichton, Disclosure

“To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.”
― Michael Crichton, Disclosure

“Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!”
― Michael Crichton

“The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“Geniuses never pay attention.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.”
― Michael Crichton, Disclosure

“For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World

“Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.”
― Michael Crichton, Next

“All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.”
― Michael Crichton, A Case of Need

“That dosent look dangerous it looks like a giant chiken.”
― 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, Prey

“At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.”
― Michael Crichton, Prey