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."

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

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

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