Michael Crichton Reality Quotations

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.