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“I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.”

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Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter, and producer, known for his science fiction novels and medical thrillers. His works often explore scientific, technological, and social issues, with novels like 'Jurassic Park' and 'Westworld' being adapted into popular films. more

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“I hadn't traveled with the intention of learning about anything except myself. And the real point of all this travel was not what I had come to believe or disbelieve about the wider world, but what I had learned about myself.”

World Believe Real Intention Traveled

Book:Travels

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“I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.”

People Thinking Knows Certain Information Source Birth Training Accidents Tunes

Book:Travels

Source: Travels

“In 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.”

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Author:Michael Crichton

“In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.”

World Ideas Modern Dangerous Complexes Fundamentalism Rigidity

Author:Michael Crichton

“Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?”

“One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.”

May Reality Suspects Measurement

Author:Michael Crichton

“One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.”

Said Hard Difficult Seeing Trouble Theory Expectations Direct Features Imposing

Author:Michael Crichton

“Science can't tell you why anything happens.”

Happens Things Happen

Author:Michael Crichton

“Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.”

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Author:Michael Crichton

“Sometimes I think man needs to feel a special position within nature, and this leads him to believe that he is either specially hated by other animals or specially cherished. Instead of the truth, which is that he's just another animal on the plain. A smart one, but just another animal.”

Thinking Men Needs Feels Believe Sometimes Animal Special Position Smart Hated

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