What Can Michael Chricton Teach Us?

I love Michael Chricton novels. I even suspended disbelief to read the sequel to Jurassic Park. I have read as many of his essays and transcripts of his speeches as I can find. He has helped form my opinions on climate change and science. But the thing I think I may take away from his work the longest is a line from a movie he wrote and directed based upon a book he wrote on a dare under a pseudonym.

For all that we ought to have thought but have not thought,

For what we ought to have done but have not done,

For what we ought to have said, but have not said,

I pray thee merciful Father, for forgiveness.

The Thirteenth Warrior.