Michael Crichton: Trending quotes

“Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”

“Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”

“You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.”

“Ian Malcolm, how do you do? I do maths.”

“All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.”

“He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.”

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

Dinosaurs eat man… Woman inherits the earth.”

“Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”

“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.”

“Welcome… to Jurassic Park!”

“They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.”

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

“Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.”

“You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.”

“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.”

“You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.”

“Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.”

“Life will find a way.”

“God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.”