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„Die Geschichte des menschlichen Glaubens sollte uns als Mahnung dienen. Wir haben Tausende unserer Mitmenschen umgebracht, weil wir glaubten, dass sie einen Pakt mit dem Teufel unterzeichnet hatten und Hexen geworden waren. Noch immer werden über tausend Menschen pro Jahr wegen Hexerei umgebracht.“

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

„Es gibt viele Gründe, warum wir von fossilen Brennstoffen wegkommen sollten, und genau das werden wir im Lauf des nächsten Jahrhunderts auch tun, ohne entsprechende Gesetze, finanzielle Anreize, Programme zur Kohlenstoffbindung und das ewige Gejammer der professionellen Angstmacher. Soweit ich weiß, musste Anfang des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts keiner das Pferd als Transportmittel verbieten.“

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

„Das Vorsorgeprinzip, so es denn korrekt angewendet wird, verbietet das Vorsorgeprinzip. Es ist ein Widerspruch in sich. Das Vorsorgeprinzip kann daher gar nicht hart genug attackiert werden.“

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

„Wir wissen erstaunlich wenig über die verschiedenen Aspekte unserer Umwelt, von ihren frühesten Anfängen bis zu ihrem jetzigen Zustand. Auch die Frage, wie sie bewahrt und geschützt werden kann, ist noch nicht beantwortet. In sämtlichen Diskussionen überschätzen alle Parteien das Ausmaß und die Zuverlässigkeit des vorhandenen Wissens.“

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

„Dieser Roman ist Fiktion, mit Ausnahme der Teile, die es nicht sind.“

Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton: Zitate auf Englisch

“Julia's original email says, "We have nothing to lose." But in the end they lost everything — their company, their lives, everything. And the ironic thing is, the procedure worked. The swarm actually solved the problem they had set for it.”

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Michael Crichton Prey

Prey (2002)

“To an outsider, the most significant innovation in the global warming controversy is the overt reliance that is being placed on models. Back in the days of nuclear winter, computer models were invoked to add weight to a conclusion: “These results are derived with the help of a computer model.” But now, large-scale computer models are seen as generating data in themselves. No longer are models judged by how well they reproduce data from the real world—increasingly, models provide the data. As if they were themselves a reality. And indeed they are, when we are projecting forward.”

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Michael Crichton

Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)

“"You want to know about the last tomb? [Conway] asked Pierce. "I'll tell you." He tapped the white cranium. "That's the last tomb, man. Right there, and you're buried there all your life. You can't escape it."”

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Michael Crichton buch Easy Go

Easy Go (1967)

“In recent years, much has been said about the post-modernist claims about science to the effect that science is just another form of raw power, tricked out in special claims for truth-seeking and objectivity that really have no basis in fact. Science, we are told, is no better than any other undertaking. These ideas anger many scientists, and they anger me. But recent events have made me wonder if they are correct.”

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Michael Crichton

Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)

“I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.”

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Michael Crichton

Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)

“Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.”

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Michael Crichton

Aliens Cause Global Warming (2003)

“We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.”

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Michael Crichton

Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)

“Sanderson laughed. "There's no problem," he said. "Yet. I've got a pretty tough old neck. I can keep it stuck out a while longer."”

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Michael Crichton buch A Case of Need

A Case of Need (1968)

“I often think people are nervous, jittery in this media climate of what if, what if, maybe, perhaps, could be — when there is usually no sensible reason to feel nervous.
Like a bearded nut in robes on the sidewalk proclaiming the end of the world is near, the media is just doing what makes it feel good, not reporting hard facts. We need to start seeing the media as a bearded nut on the sidewalk, shouting out false fears. Its not sensible to listen to it.”

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Michael Crichton buch Welt in Angst

State of Fear (2004)

“We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we're told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. 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 are 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

Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)

“As I went down to my car, [Peter Randall] said, "If you don't want to get involved I'll understand" I looked back at him. "You know damn well I'd have no choice." "I didn't," he said. "But I was hoping."”

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Michael Crichton buch A Case of Need

A Case of Need (1968)

“In a sense that is a part of the training: surgeons are lonely men.”

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Michael Crichton buch A Case of Need

A Case of Need (1968)

“Increasingly it seems facts aren't necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief. It's about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them.”

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Michael Crichton

Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)

“You could not predict what would happen in a single instance, a single throw of the dice, a single pitch in the seventh inning, a single toss of the coin. But you could predict three out of five, four out of ten, seven out of sixteen, and to that extent chance governed everyone, all the time. Just as surely as two equals two.”

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Michael Crichton buch Odds On

Odds On (1966)

“Steve Jencks: The computer doesn't have any ideas. It only evaluates mine…”

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Michael Crichton buch Odds On

Odds On (1966)

“There is no Eden. There never was. What was that Eden of the wonderful mythic past? Is it the time when infant mortality was 80%, when four children in five died of disease before the age of five? When one woman in six died in childbirth? When the average lifespan was 40, as it was in America a century ago? When plagues swept across the planet, killing millions in a stroke. Was it when millions starved to death? Is that when it was Eden?”

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Michael Crichton

Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)

“Carr was left with a ring, in the palm of his hand, a small gold circle, leading him nowhere.”

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Michael Crichton buch Scratch One

Scratch One, written under the pseudonym John Lange (1967)

“Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths, they conscript interesting lifestyles to serve a plot. So lawyers are all unscrupulous and doctors are all uncaring. Psychiatrists are all crazy, and politicians are all corrupt. All cops are psychopaths, and all businessmen are crooks. Even moviemakers come off badly: directors are megalomaniacs, actors are spoiled brats. Since all occupations are portrayed negatively, why expect scientists to be treated differently?”

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Michael Crichton

"Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities: Science Views Media" http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote01.html - Speech to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Anaheim, California (25 January 1999)