506 Quotes by Michael Crichton

All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.

They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist's job, and now we have whole societies that try to be scientific... We've had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it's good for, and what it's not good for. It's time for a change.

If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

Welcome to Westworld, where nothing can go wrong...go wrong...go wrong.