Social control is best managed through fear.
MICHAEL CRICHTON, State of Fear
There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.
MICHAEL CRICHTON, State of Fear
Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional--to become what everyone believes--the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.
Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and your instruments, but in the end your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.
MICHAEL CRICHTON, The Andromeda Strain
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
MICHAEL CRICHTON, State of Fear
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.
MICHAEL CRICHTON, Timeline
It was the job of art to bring true feelings alive. To shock people into awareness.
