Michael Crichton Quotes

Bogus science gives vague, undisciplined thinking the look of seriousness and truth.

Our [politicians] responsibility is to be sure that we utilize the best science.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Anecdotal experience, unfortunately, trumps scientific evidence.

Pseudoscience and nonsense …

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the Internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'It isn't real! Stop it!'

Too often reporters covering scientific debates give fringe views equal weight in a misguided attempt to achieve balance.

Washington DC has become an evidence-free zone.

Regulations are a form of legislation and should be decided by a political process, not more or better benefit-cost analyses.

Arguments are made in Washington with very few facts behind them.

It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.

Go with the science!.

You can't manage science.... There are some things that you have to do based on the facts regardless of your ideology.

We should all be troubled when science is treated as if it were an ideology rather than a discipline.