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 sett…

- Michael Crichton

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban a…

- Michael Crichton

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And m…

- Michael Crichton

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always…

- 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 of a tree.

- Michael Crichton

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's co…

- Michael Crichton

Social control is best managed through fear.

- Michael Crichton

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is ex…

- Michael Crichton

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, th…

- Michael Crichton