Michael Crichton

"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 di…"

"This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right."

"In a sense that is a part of the training: surgeons are lonely men."

"Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all…"

"I would give anything to know what you thought at the moment you died," Pierce said. His voice echoed in the tomb. The flame went out."

"The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spir…"

"As I went down to my car, said, "If you don't want to get involved I'll understand" I looked back at him. "You know damn well I'd have no choice." "I didn't," he said. "But I was hoping."

"Endless presentation of conflict may interfere with genuine issue resolution. There is evidence that the television food-fights not only don't represent the views of most people — who are not so polar…"