I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
Michael CrichtonThe characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.
Michael CrichtonNobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?
Michael CrichtonThis is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.
Michael Crichton