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, Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities: Science Views Media (1999)

From his 1999 speech to the AAAS in Anaheim, California.

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