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The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. (ang.)
Źródło: przemówienie pt. Environmentalism as Religion, The Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, 15 września 2003
Michael Crichton cytaty
„Bo w sztuce liczy się przede wszystkim odczuwanie.”
Michael Crichton
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Następny
Następny (2006)
„Jest tylko jedna rzecz gorsza od liberała w limuzynie: ekolog w odrzutowcu.”
Michael Crichton
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Państwo strachu
Państwo strachu (2004)
„Świat nie jest taki, jak byśmy chcieli.
Świat jest, jaki jest.”
Michael Crichton
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Państwo strachu
Państwo strachu (2004)
„Idea również jest w pewnym sensie modą.”
Michael Crichton
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Państwo strachu
Państwo strachu (2004)
„Dziś przywództwo polega na tym, że mówi się ludziom dokładnie to, co chcą usłyszeć.”
Michael Crichton
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Wschodzące słońce
Wschodzące słońce (1992)
Michael Crichton
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Następny
Następny (2006)
Rój (2002)
Michael Crichton
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Następny
Następny (2006)
Michael Crichton: Cytaty po angielsku
“Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.”
Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
Źródło: Jurassic Park
“The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.”
Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
Źródło: Jurassic Park
“Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.”
Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
Źródło: Jurassic Park
“All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.”
Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
Źródło: Jurassic Park
“You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.”
Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
Źródło: Jurassic Park
“He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.”
Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
Źródło: Jurassic Park
“Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”
Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
Źródło: Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
Timeline
Wariant: Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.
Źródło: Timeline
“I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.”
Michael Crichton
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Państwo strachu
State of Fear (2004)
“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”
Michael Crichton
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Państwo strachu
Źródło: State of Fear
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Kontekst: Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth — that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric. The effort to promote effective legislation for the environment is not helped by thinking that the Democrats will save us and the Republicans won't. Political history is more complicated than that.
“I want to mention in passing that punditry has undergone a subtle change over the years.”
"Why Speculate?" https://web.archive.org/web/20050328084634/http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote03.html - speech at the International Leadership Forum, La Jolla, California (26 April 2002)
Kontekst: I want to mention in passing that punditry has undergone a subtle change over the years. In the old days, commentators such as Eric Sevareid spent most of their time putting events in a context, giving a point of view about what had already happened. Telling what they thought was important or irrelevant in the events that had already taken place. This is of course a legitimate function of expertise in every area of human knowledge.
But over the years the punditic thrust has shifted away from discussing what has happened, to discussing what may happen. And here the pundits have no benefit of expertise at all. Worse, they may, like the Sunday politicians, attempt to advance one or another agenda by predicting its imminent arrival or demise. This is politicking, not predicting.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
Kontekst: The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock... it will demand that you adapt to it — and if you don't, you die. It is a harsh, powerful, and unforgiving world, that most urban westerners have never experienced.
