He finally decided that children liked dinosaurs because these giant creatures personified the uncontrollable force of looming authority. They were s… - Michael Crichton

All major changes are like death,” he said. “You can’t see to the other side until you are there.

Science has attained so much power that its practical limits begin to be apparent. Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it.

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."