Jurassic Park

Here are some memorable quotes,

"Most kinds of power require a substantial

sacrifice by whoever wants the power.

There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years.

Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company.

Black belt in karate. Spiritual guru.

Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time,

the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it."



"But scientific power is like inherited wealth:attained without discipline."



Those sentences are the main theory in this book.

Micahel Crichton is such an extroadinary scientific story teller.

In preparing the novel, he has drawn on the work of many paleontologists.

He was also inspired by the chaos theory and then he created Ian Malcolm.

Once people play with the most powerful technology and try to create things

which no longer exsists, the disaster begins.

It is not merely a terrifying fiction or mediocre horror story as the movie.



I am also impressed by the great imagination of Michael Crichton and other scientists.

The way he described Valociraptors is so real and reasonable.

I thought dinosaurs are some kind of reptile.

But, they are neither reptile nor birds. They are animals we don`t know.

We can`t classify things we don`t know.

Things which bones and DNA sequence can tell are few.



After reading the book, I have a new perspective on the nature and science.
Science is a new term since the Renaissance in Florence,
a new method that we can see things objectively.




但是一個科學到了狂人的手上，到了野心家的手上，想要把不可能的事情變為可能，
這就是惡夢的開始。特別是那些想要操縱自然，想要創造從來沒有的生物，
或是已經滅絕的生物。
當然這純粹是想像，現在我們連活著的生物都複製不出來，更何況是滅絕的。
這本書畢竟是有一點年紀了，不知道是什麼樣的科學新知激發了作者，也許是桃莉羊吧。

這本書實在是太精采了，作者對侏儸紀公園的構思很精細，
從看似完美無缺的設計，再看到它轟然之間，一夜毀滅。