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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I am certain there is too much certainy in the world. |
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Vote: | I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. |
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Vote: | If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. |
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Vote: | It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something. |
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Vote: | 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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Dr. John Michael Crichton (born October 23, 1942) is an author and producer. His best-known works are science fiction: novels, films and television programs. His genre can be best described as techno-thriller which is usually the marriage of action and technical details. Many of his novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background.
Biography Crichton was raised in Roslyn, Long Island, USA, and attended Harvard University, where he graduated summa cum laude in anthropology. He went on to teach anthropology at Cambridge in England, later returning to Massachusetts to gain an M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School.
While in medical school, he wrote novels under the pen names John Lange and Jeffrey Hudson (under which pseudonym A Case of Need won the 1969 Edgar Award). He also co-authored Dealing with his younger brother Douglas Crichton under a shared pen name Michael Douglas. The back cover of that book contains a picture of Michael and Douglas at a very young age taken by their mother.
His two pen names were both created to reflect his above-average height. According to his own words, he was about 206 cm (6'9") tall in 1997 (http://www.adara-interactive.com/crichton/ow_transcripts2.htm). "Lange" (adverb) means "for a long time" in German and Sir Jeffrey Hudson was a famous seventeenth century dwarf in Queen Henrietta Maria's court.
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Michael Crichton".
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