Michael Crichton Quotes

One can not impede scientific progress.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

Without science, there would be no such hope.

To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

'Star Trek' says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.