Discovery is always raped of the natural world. Always.

— Michael Crichton

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

— Michael Crichton

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus, fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

— Michael Crichton

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

— Michael Crichton

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

— Michael Crichton

Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.

— Michael Crichton

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

— Michael Crichton

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

— Michael Crichton

Friendships are nice. So is competence.

— Michael Crichton

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

— Michael Crichton