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Michael Crichton — Portrait after a picture by Jon Chase / Harvard News Office (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

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Michael Crichton

American author, screenwriter, film director

1942–2008

4 quotes.

Professor Johnston often said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree.
Timeline (1999), Chapter 2, “Dordogne” (p. 85)
- History
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
State of Fear (2004)
- Thinking
The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature.
Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
- Experience
- Nature
Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid — and merits universal acceptance — only if it can be independently verified.
Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (28 September 2005)
- Science

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