I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in s...
MICHAEL CRICHTON I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c...
MICHAEL CRICHTON If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part...
MICHAEL CRICHTON The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectation...
MICHAEL CRICHTON What makes you think that human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human bei...
MICHAEL CRICHTON The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawin...
MICHAEL CRICHTON And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.
MICHAEL CRICHTON Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
MICHAEL CRICHTON Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid d...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings n...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth...
MICHAEL CRICHTON They didn't understand what they were doing.
I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the hu...
MICHAEL CRICHTON I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.
I don't wa...
MICHAEL CRICHTON I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
MICHAEL CRICHTON Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, b...
MICHAEL CRICHTON The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a sing...
MICHAEL CRICHTON In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish though...
MICHAEL CRICHTON I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawin...
MICHAEL CRICHTON The American media produce a product of very poor quality. Its information is not reliable, it has t...
MICHAEL CRICHTON I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawin...
MICHAEL CRICHTON In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought...
MICHAEL CRICHTON It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
MICHAEL CRICHTON They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something...
MICHAEL CRICHTON We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
MICHAEL CRICHTON If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to acc...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others h...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary r...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
MICHAEL CRICHTON You think man can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. Let me tell you about our planet. Ea...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and k...
MICHAEL CRICHTON They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situati...
MICHAEL CRICHTON The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense...
MICHAEL CRICHTON His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoe...
MICHAEL CRICHTON You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because...
MICHAEL CRICHTON A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON [..]Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."
Yes? Why is that?" MICHAEL CRICHTON At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s j...
MICHAEL CRICHTON They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, yo...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destr...
MICHAEL CRICHTON God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaur...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
MICHAEL CRICHTON Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest thing...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, b...
MICHAEL CRICHTON It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run ma...
MICHAEL CRICHTON It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
MICHAEL CRICHTON Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
MICHAEL CRICHTON ... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them w...
MICHAEL CRICHTON They told me not to move and I did what they said. I didn't move an inch, not with that gun pointed ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on...
MICHAEL CRICHTON My point is that life on earth can take care of itself. In the thinking of a human being, a hundred ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do ...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands t...
MICHAEL CRICHTON But now science is the belief system that is hundreds of years old. And, like the medieval system be...
MICHAEL CRICHTON The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.
MICHAEL CRICHTON Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but the...
MICHAEL CRICHTON God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dino...
MICHAEL CRICHTON The commercialization of molecular biology is the most stunning ethical event in the history of scie...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Ireland Quinn Brady," he finally moved forward with an extended pointer finger to push me back down....
LEAH CRICHTON There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth c...
MICHAEL GOUGH You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le...
MICHAEL SHANNON You have to always remember who your guest is, and that's who we cater to.
MICHAEL MINA Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
MICHAEL CAINE I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There&...
MICHAEL SYMON We've certainly learned a lot of lessons from Katrina, from Rita. Rita was better than Katrina. ...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag...
MICHAEL PATERNITI When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se...
MICHAEL JACKSON People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
MICHAEL JACKSON Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straigh...
MICHAEL JACKSON Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours wi...
MICHAEL JACKSON Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parti...
MICHAEL JACKSON Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e...
MICHAEL JACKSON Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
MICHAEL JACKSON Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and cha...
MICHAEL JACKSON There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...
MICHAEL JACKSON It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
MICHAEL STRAHAN I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.
MICHAEL CARBONARO To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
MICHAEL KORDA I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's...
MICHAEL BUBLE Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a doubl...
MICHAEL POLLAN Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca...
MICHAEL LEUNIG There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
MICHAEL HANEKE Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr...
MICHAEL ROOKER The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle...
MICHAEL LEUNIG A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.
MICHAEL KORS You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE If you copy then it is not self-expression.
MICHAEL SCHENKER I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both w...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.
MICHAEL ASTON Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o...
MICHAEL MORPURGO War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want peo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for tr...
MICHAEL MORPURGO We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really...
MICHAEL MORPURGO By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to...
MICHAEL MORPURGO To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.
MICHAEL MORPURGO Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write...
MICHAEL MORPURGO One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us.
MICHAEL MORPURGO The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
MICHAEL MORPURGO It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you wi...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a schoo...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Encouraging young people to believe in themselves and find their own voice whether it's through ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to undere...
MICHAEL MORPURGO Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at a...
MICHAEL MORPURGO It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwritin...
MICHAEL MORPURGO My legacy would be that you don't have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of ...
MICHAEL KORS Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
MICHAEL POLLAN 'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable...
MICHAEL SHEEN One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
MICHAEL PALIN The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL A lot of children are interested in fairies, especially young girls, and Tinker Bell is the ueber-fa...
MICHAEL SHEEN Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A l...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
MICHAEL FRANTI To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest...
MICHAEL JORDAN Muftis and bishops should be like ripe camembert cheeses - a bit on the nose and not for the faint-h...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western ...
MICHAEL NOVAK I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and ...
MICHAEL ANTI One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, ...
MICHAEL FROME A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.
MICHAEL BOLTON Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach ...
MICHAEL BOLTON The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE As a kid, I watched 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River&#...
MICHAEL KORYTA The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional pow...
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it...
MICHAEL GRAVES With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.
MICHAEL STIPE I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat...
MICHAEL SHOWALTER To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerf...
MICHAEL DELONG Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking abo...
MICHAEL ARRINGTON You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based eth...
MICHAEL POLLAN A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.
MICHAEL FROME I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should ha...
MICHAEL KORDA In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the trut...
MICHAEL MUSTO Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
MICHAEL WICKETT I moved from Moscow to Rome with my family and two bicycles in 1998, and spent a lot of that year- a...
MICHAEL SPECTER You get to about 65 or 70 and you lose friends and the world does seem to be an endlessly difficult ...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.
MICHAEL LEUNIG The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide th...
MICHAEL KORDA Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the split...
MICHAEL MEADE Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.
MICHAEL WINTER The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while q...
MICHAEL KORDA We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea...
MICHAEL JORDAN When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical abili...
MICHAEL JORDAN You have to build up to green smoothies. Everyone loves fruit smoothies: you can add a handful of ba...
MICHAEL GREGER As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt:...
MICHAEL GREGER In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, inco...
MICHAEL SHERMER Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the vari...
MICHAEL DIRDA Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical ...
MICHAEL BEHE My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-st...
MICHAEL KEATON In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the governm...
MICHAEL MCCAUL