If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
Michael CrichtonHuman intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
Michael CrichtonAll major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.
Michael CrichtonIn any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
Michael Crichton