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• It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

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• Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.

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• Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

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• Nobody is driven by abstractions like seeking truth.

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• Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

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• Friendships are nice. So is competence.

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• Physics was the first of the natural sciences to become fully modern and highly mathematical. Chemistry followed in the wake of physics, but biology, the retarded child, lagged far behind.

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• Anyone who says he knows God’s intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

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• Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.

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• Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

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• No one escapes from life alive.

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• We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

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• They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

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• The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

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

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• It’s not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

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• In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

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• I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

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• I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

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• 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 settled.

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Michael Crichton (20)

Birth:	23rd October, 1942
Death:	4th November, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Television Producer

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