Quotes by Michael Crichton

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

I am certain there is too much certainy in the world.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.