Michael Crichton

1942–2008 · American author, screenwriter, film director

Topics: learning

• You turn the page, and forget what you know.

  — Michael Crichton

• This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

  — Michael Crichton

• Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.

  — Michael Crichton

• Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

  — Michael Crichton

• Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid — and merits universal acceptance — only if it can be independently verified.

  — Michael Crichton