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John Michael Crichton foi um autor, roteirista, diretor de cinema, produtor e ex-médico estadunidense mais conhecido por seu trabalho nos gêneros de ficção científica, ficção médica e thriller. Seus livros já venderam mais de 200 milhões de cópias em todo o mundo e muitos foram adaptados em filmes.

Em 1994, Crichton tornou-se o único artista criativo a ter obras simultâneas no topo da televisão , cinema e vendas de livros dos Estados Unidos. Seu gênero literário pode ser descrito como thriller tecnológico, que é, geralmente, a união de ação e de detalhes técnicos. Seus romances muitas vezes exploram a tecnologia e as falhas da interação humana com ela, especialmente resultando em catástrofes com biotecnologia.

Muitos de seus romances têm termos médicos ou científicos, refletindo seu treino médico e científico — Crichton era formado em medicina pela Harvard Medical School. Escreveu, entre outras obras, The Andromeda Strain , Congo , Sphere , Travels , Jurassic Park , Rising Sun , Disclosure , The Lost World , Airframe , Timeline , Prey , State of Fear , Next , Pirate Latitudes , um techno-thriller incompleto, Micro, que foi publicado em novembro de 2011, e Dragon Teeth, um romance histórico ambientado durante a "guerra dos ossos", que foi publicado em todo o mundo em maio de 2017. Crichton faleceu no dia 4 de novembro de 2008 por conta de um linfoma. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Outubro 1942 – 4. Novembro 2008  •  Outros nomes Мајкл Крајтон
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Michael Crichton: Frases em inglês

“They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. I hope it's not. We might get lucky.”

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Michael Crichton Prey

Fonte: Prey (2002)

“In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell.”

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Michael Crichton

“Geniuses never pay attention.”

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Michael Crichton livro The Lost World

Fonte: The Lost World

“Do you want to understand how to swim, or do you want to jump in and start swimming? Only people who are afraid of the water want to understand it. Other people jump in and get wet.”

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Michael Crichton livro Sphere

Fonte: Sphere

“Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world.”

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Michael Crichton livro State of Fear

Fonte: State of Fear

“Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.”

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Michael Crichton livro The Lost World

Fonte: The Lost World

“The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.”

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Michael Crichton livro The Andromeda Strain

Fonte: The Andromeda Strain

“Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.”

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Michael Crichton

“False fears are a plague, a modern plague!”

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Michael Crichton livro State of Fear

Fonte: State of Fear

“It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.”

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Michael Crichton Timeline

Fonte: Timeline

“You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.”

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Michael Crichton livro Next

Fonte: Next

“Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.”

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Michael Crichton livro State of Fear

Fonte: State of Fear

“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

Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Contexto: I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. 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.

“When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?”

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Michael Crichton livro State of Fear

Fonte: State of Fear

“Egypt imbued the view with a heavy sense of mystery and foreboding.”

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Michael Crichton livro Easy Go

Easy Go (1967)

“The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification — framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.”

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Michael Crichton

"Mediasaurus: The decline of conventional media" - Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. (7 April 1993)

“The examples can be multiplied endlessly. Jenner and smallpox, Pasteur and germ theory. Saccharine, margarine, repressed memory, fiber and colon cancer, hormone replacement therapy. The list of consensus errors goes on and on.”

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Michael Crichton

Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)

“"I would give anything to know what you thought at the moment you died," Pierce said. His voice echoed in the tomb. The flame went out.”

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Michael Crichton livro Easy Go

Easy Go (1967)

“Once you abandon strict adherence to what science tells us, once you start arranging the truth in a press conference, then anything is possible. In one context, maybe you will get some mobilization against nuclear war. But in another context, you get Lysenkoism. In another, you get Nazi euthanasia. The danger is always there, if you subvert science to political ends.”

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Michael Crichton

Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)

“They passed a farmhouse, a simple shack surrounded by animals — a lazy burro, clucking chickens, a litter of pigs. The farmhouse stood alone in the desolate landscape. There was no sign of a living person anywhere. And then it was gone, lost in the swirling dust plume of the car.”

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Michael Crichton livro Zero Cool

Zero Cool, written under the pseudonym John Lange (1969)

“Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory.”

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Michael Crichton livro A Case of Need

A Case of Need (1968)

“I want to make it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment. I believe it is essential to act in ways that are sympathetic to the environment, now and in the future. I believe that the world has genuine problems and I believe they must be addressed effectively.
But I also think that deciding what constitutes responsible action is immensely difficult, and I believe the consequences of our actions are often difficult to know in advance.”

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Michael Crichton livro State of Fear

State of Fear (2004)

“I tried to tell which was Randall, but I could not; in their gowns and masks, they all looked the same, impersonal, interchangeable. That was not true of course. One of those four men had responsibility for everything, for the contact of all sixteen workers present. And responsibility for the seventeenth person in that room, the man whose heart was stopped.”

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Michael Crichton livro A Case of Need

A Case of Need (1968)

“Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine perceptions of reality. In short, our struggle to determine what is true is the struggle to decide which of our perceptions is genuine, and which are false because they are handed down, or sold to us, or generated by our own hopes and fears.”

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Michael Crichton livro State of Fear

State of Fear (2004)

“As the twentieth century drew to a close, the connection between hard scientific fact and public policy became increasingly elastic. In part this was possible because of the complacency of the scientific profession; in part because of the lack of good science education among the public; in part, because of the rise of specialized advocacy groups which have been enormously effective in getting publicity and shaping policy; and in great part because of the decline of the media as an independent assessor of fact.”

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Michael Crichton

Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)