John Michael Crichton [ˈkɹaɪtn̩] war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor, Regisseur und Filmproduzent. Wikipedia
Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst
Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 526. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
Original englisch: "The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed they had signed a contract with the devil, and had become witches. We still kill more than a thousand people a year for witchcraft." - State of Fear. HarperCollins 2004. p. 580
Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst
Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 515. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
Original englisch: "There are many reasons to shift away from fossil fuels, and we will do so in the next century without legislation, financial incentives, carbon-conservation programs, or the interminable yammering of fearmongers. So far as I know, nobody had to ban horse transport in the early twentieth century." - State of Fear. HarperCollins 2004. p. 570
Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst
Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 516. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
Original englisch: "The “precautionary principle,” properly applied, forbids the precautionary principle. It is self-contradictory. The precautionary principle therefore cannot be spoken of in terms that are too harsh." - State of Fear. HarperCollins 2004. p. 571
„Ich weiß mit Gewissheit, dass es zu viel Gewissheit in der Welt gibt.“
Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst
Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 518. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
Original englisch: "I am certain there is too much certainty in the world." - State of Fear. HarperCollins 2004. p. 573
Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst
Welt in Angst. München 2005. ISBN 3-89667-210-X. Nachwort. S. 514. Übersetzer: Ulnke Wasel und Klaus Timmermann
"We know astonishingly little about every aspect of the environment, from its past history, to its present state, to how to conserve and protect it. In every debate, all sides overstate the extent of existing knowledge and its degree of certainty." - State of Fear
Michael Crichton buch The Lost World
Quelle: The Lost World
Michael Crichton buch The Andromeda Strain
Quelle: The Andromeda Strain
“False fears are a plague, a modern plague!”
Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst
Quelle: State of Fear
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Kontext: 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.
Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst
Quelle: State of Fear
"Mediasaurus: The decline of conventional media" - Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. (7 April 1993)
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
Michael Crichton buch Zero Cool
Zero Cool, written under the pseudonym John Lange (1969)
“Being on the "Hold" is the technological equivalent of purgatory.”
Michael Crichton buch A Case of Need
A Case of Need (1968)
Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst
State of Fear (2004)
Michael Crichton buch A Case of Need
A Case of Need (1968)
Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst
State of Fear (2004)
Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)
