506 Quotes by Michael Crichton

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.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

In general, people who aren't in touch with their emotions tend to think their emotions are unimportant.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

My own sense is that the acquisition of self knowledge has been made difficult by the modern world. More and more human beings live in vast urban environments, surrounded by other human beings and the creations of human beings. The natural world, the traditional source of self-awareness, is increasingly absent.

Geniuses never pay attention.

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.