Author: Michael Crichton

Cites

• Benjamin Disraeli (1)
  • IN: Odds On (1966) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Samuel Johnson (2)
  • IN: Grave Descend (1970) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
    FROM: NULL, (1759), Essay, UK
• D. D. McGowan (1)
  • IN: Zero Cool (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Radiologists see things in black and white.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• NULL (10)
  • IN: Eaters of the Dead (1976) Fiction, Suspense, Speculative fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Evil is of old date.
    FROM: Arab Proverb, (None), Proverb, Middle East
  • IN: The Lost World (1995) Science Fiction, Techno-thriller, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sequelae are inherently unpredictable.
    FROM: Ian Malcolm, (1995), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Rising Sun (1992) Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Business is war.
    FROM: Japanese Motto, (None), Saying, Japan
  • IN: Binary (1972) Thriller, Suspense, Speculative fiction, Techno-thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: BINARY: any system composed of two interacting elements. As in binary stars, binary numbers, binary gases, etc.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Definition, NULL
  • IN: The Great Train Robbery (1975) Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Satan is glad - when I am bad, And hopes that I - with him shall lie In fire and chains - and dreadful pains
    FROM: Victorian child's poem, 1856, (1856), Poem, UK
  • IN: Disclosure (1994) Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer: (r) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin or (a) to limit, segregate, classify his employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect his status as an employee, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
    FROM: Title VA Civil Rights Act of 1964, (1964), Legal Document, US
  • IN: Timeline (1999) Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I'm not interested in the future. I'm interested in the future of the future.
    FROM: Robert Doniger, (1996), Fictional, NULL
• Steven Weinberg (2)
  • IN: Next (2006) Techno-thriller, Utopian and dystopian fiction, Satire , American
    EPIGRAPH: The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless
    FROM: Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, (1993), Book, US
• William James (2)
  • IN: Next (2006) Techno-thriller, Utopian and dystopian fiction, Satire , American
    EPIGRAPH: The word “cause” is an altar to an unknown god.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Jean-Paul Sartre (2)
  • IN: Next (2006) Techno-thriller, Utopian and dystopian fiction, Satire , American
    EPIGRAPH: What is not possible is not to choose.
    FROM: Existentialism is a Humanism, (1946), Lecture, France
• William L. Kissick, M.D. (1)
  • IN: Five Patients (1970) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Health, as a vast societal enterprise, is too important to be solely the concern of the providers of services.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Albert Einstein (1)
  • IN: The Lost World (1995) Science Fiction, Techno-thriller, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
    FROM: Remark to Ernst G. Straus, (None), Conversation, Germany/US
• Stuart Kauffman (1)
  • IN: The Lost World (1995) Science Fiction, Techno-thriller, Horror fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.
    FROM: Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution, (1993), Book, US
• Linnaeus (1)
  • IN: Jurassic Park (1990) Hard science fiction, Techno-thriller, Horror fiction , American
    EPIGRAPH: Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them.
    FROM: NULL, (1797), NULL, Sweden
• Erwin Chargaff (1)
  • IN: Jurassic Park (1990) Hard science fiction, Techno-thriller, Horror fiction , American
    EPIGRAPH: You cannot recall a new form of life.
    FROM: NULL, (1972), NULL, Ukraine/US
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: State of Fear (2004) Techno-thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
    FROM: Life on the Mississippi, (1883), Book, US
• George Orwell (1)
  • IN: State of Fear (2004) Techno-thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Philip Sanders (1)
  • IN: Rising Sun (1992) Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are entering a world where the old rules no longer apply.
    FROM: NULL, (1992), Fictional, NULL
• Dr Bennett, Ivan L. (1)
  • IN: Binary (1972) Thriller, Suspense, Speculative fiction, Techno-thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: Chemical agents lend themselves to covert use in sabotage against which it is exceedingly difficult to visualize any really effective defence… I will not dwell upon this use of CBS because, as one pursues the possibilities of such covert uses, one discovers that the scenarios resemble that in which the components of a nuclear weapon are smuggled into New York City and assembled in the basement of the Empire State Building. In other words, once the possibility is recognized to exist, about all that one can do is worry about it.
    FROM: Dr Ivan L. Bennett, testifying before the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments, November 20, 1969, (1969), NULL, US
• Louis I. Kahn (1)
  • IN: Sphere (1987) Science Fiction, Techno-thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: When a scientist views things, he’s not considering the incredible at all.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Richard Feynman (1)
  • IN: Sphere (1987) Science Fiction, Techno-thriller , American
    EPIGRAPH: You can’t fool nature.
    FROM: Report to President Reagan about the explosion of the NASA Shuttle Challenger, (1986), NULL, US
• Edward Pierce (1)
  • IN: The Great Train Robbery (1975) Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I wanted the money.
    FROM: Edward Pierce, 1856, (1856), NULL, US
• Catherine Graham (1)
  • IN: Disclosure (1994) Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Power is neither male nor female.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• William L. Kissick (1)
  • IN: Five Patients (1970) True crime, American
    EPIGRAPH: Health, as a vast societal enterprise, is too important to be solely the concern of the providers of services.
    FROM: William L. Kissick, M.D., (None), NULL, US
• Winston Churchill (1)
  • IN: Timeline (1999) Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
    FROM: NULL, (1953), NULL, UK
• Edward Johnston (1)
  • IN: Timeline (1999) Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you don't know history, you don't know anything.
    FROM: NULL, (1990), NULL, UK
• E.O Wilson (1)
  • IN: Micro (2011) Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Adventure fiction, Techno-thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: Minute Creatures swarm around us…objects of potentially endless study and admiration, if we are willing to sweep our vision down from the world lined by the horizon to include the world an arm’s length away. A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a tree.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Karl Jaspers (1)
  • IN: Drug of Choice (1970) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: The beginning of modern science is also the beginning of calamity
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany/Switzerland
• Anon (1)
  • IN: Drug of Choice (1970) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: Give me librium or give me meth!
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
• Confucius (1)
  • IN: Drug of Choice (1970) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.
    FROM: Saying of Confucius, (None), Saying, China
• Thoreau (1)
  • IN: Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1970) Thriller, Mystery, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Most of what my neighbors call good, I am profoundly convinced is evil, and if I repent anything, it is my good conduct that I repent.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Art Linkletter (1)
  • IN: Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1970) Thriller, Mystery, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When somebody like Timothy Leary comes out and justifies [using drugs], we’ve got to jump on him with hobnailed boots.
    FROM: NULL, (1972), Article, US/Canada
• Billie Holiday (1)
  • IN: Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1970) Thriller, Mystery, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I knew I was going off (hard) drugs when I didn’t like to watch TV.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Fats Waller (1)
  • IN: Dealing or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1970) Thriller, Mystery, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The sky is high, and so am I— if you’se a viper.
    FROM: You'se a Viper (Reefer Song), (1943), Song, US
• John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1)
  • IN: The Terminal Man (1972) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my own motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions, I don’t know why I do things.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, England/India
• Frederick Jackson Turner (1)
  • IN: The Terminal Man (1972) Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “The wilderness masters the colonist.”
    FROM: The Significance of the Frontier in American History, (1893), Essay, US
• Morton Stanley, Henry (1)
  • IN: Congo (1980) Adventure Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.
    FROM: NULL, (1887), NULL, UK
• B. Schaller, George (1)
  • IN: Congo (1980) Adventure Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The large male [gorilla] held my attention…. He gave an impression of dignity and restrained power, of absolute certainty in his majestic appearance. I felt a desire to communicate with him…. Never before had I had this feeling on meeting an animal. As we watched each other across the valley, I wondered if he recognized the kinship that bound us.
    FROM: NULL, (1964), NULL, US/Germany
• Sigmund Freud (1)
  • IN: Travels (1988) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In self-analysis the danger of incompleteness is particularly great. One is too soon satisfied with a part explanation.
    FROM: The Subtleties of a Faulty Action, (1935), NULL, Austria
• Lao Tzu (1)
  • IN: Travels (1988) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Existence is beyond the power of words to define.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Religious Text, China
• Frank Stella (1)
  • IN: Travels (1988) Fiction, Mystery Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What you see is what you see.
    FROM: Questions to Stella and Judd, (1966), Interview, US

Cited by

• Winna Efendi & Haana Dianika (1)
  • IN: Truth or Dare (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: 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.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Minette Walters (1)
  • IN: Disordered (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No man is so good as to be free trom all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.
    FROM: Eaters of the Dead, (1976), Novel, US