This 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 CrichtonIf 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 CrichtonThe doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.
Michael CrichtonAll your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.
Michael CrichtonIn order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment.
Michael Crichton