# Quote — Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

> But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident, like a car crash. Or beyond our control, like a fatal illness. We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence. Yet it is.

- Author: [Michael Crichton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton.md)
- Book: [Jurassic Park](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton/jurassic-park.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton/jurassic-park/but-we-have

## More from this book

> Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.

p. 284 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton/jurassic-park/discovery-is-always.md)

> "I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing. I don't want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton/jurassic-park/i-believe-my-life.md)

> "With subsequent drawings of the fractal curve, sudden changes may appear."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-crichton/jurassic-park/with-subsequent-drawings.md)