Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

"Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always."

"He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it."

"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."

"God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs."

"You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are."