“- Aitch: With this pill, they say you take it and that's it. Your hair don't grow, you don't go bald, it stays the same. You have your hair cut once, in whatever style you want, and it stays like that for the rest of your natural life. It's completely revolutionary.
- Jackie: What if you get fed up with your style, you berk?
- Aitch: Well,...” (continue) (continue reading)
Science quotes
157 science quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines-
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“A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.”
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“- Dr. Malcolm Sayer: It was an immense project. I was to extract 1 decagram of myelin from 4 tons of earth worms.
- Dr. Sullivan: Really!
- Dr. Malcolm Sayer: Yes. I was on the project for 5 years. I was the only one who believed in it. Everyone else said it couldn't be done.
- Dr. Kaufman: It can't.
- Dr. Malcolm Sayer: I know that now. I...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the ninth configuration. But given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would have taken for just one of these protein molecules to appear entirely by chance? Roughly ten to the two hundred and...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Smith: I haven't seen anything and I don't need to see anything, sir, but I can tell you... this ship is fucked.
- Dr. Weir: Well, thank you for that scientific analysis, Mr. Smith.” -
“In science fiction, you create your own reality.”
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“I came for science. I'm leaving 'cause of witches. Welcome to the new dark ages!”
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“- Gus: I am told his product was more or less consistent with the quality I come to expect.
- Walter White: More or less? More or less, really? Wow. Boy this... Talk about setting the bar low. Except you don't do that, set the bar low. Therefore, what conclusion am I left to draw? That you believe I have some proprietary kind of selfishness...” (continue) (continue reading) -
“Seurat confounds painting with science. He's lost himself in optical experiments. There's nothing more to expect from Renoir, Degas, Monet. They repeat themselves. They've given everything they could give.”
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“I’m a religious woman, there’s no question, but I have also been to medical school. And, well, you can say that I hold science in one hand and God in the other, and that is not always an easy balance.”
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“I don't know what space exploration will uncover, but I don't think it'll be exploration just for the sake of exploration. I think it'll be more the fact that it allows us to see things. That maybe we should have seen a long time ago. But just haven't been able to until now.”
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“I don't even know what hydrogen is.”
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“Science is all about playing God. Sometimes God doesn't play so nice.”
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“- Charlie Holloway: I guess you can take your father’s cross off now.
- Elizabeth Shaw: Why would I wanna do that?
- Charlie Holloway: Because they made us.
- Elizabeth Shaw: And who made them?
- Charlie Holloway: Well, exactly. We’ll never know. But here’s what we do know. That there is nothing special about the creation of life. Right? Anybody...” (continue) (continue reading)
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“- Nathan: I understand that you want me to explain how Ava works, but I'm sorry. I'm not gonna be able to do that.
- Caleb: Try me. I'm hot on high-level abstraction.
- Nathan: It's not 'cause I think you're too dumb. It's 'cause I want to have a beer and a conversation with you, not a seminar.”
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“There is no rational explanation that supports this theory. But it is only the ability to embrace the different reality, that makes science expand beyond the limits of what we know.”
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“I'm left with only one option, I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this.”
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“- Dr. Henry Jekyll: It's not an exact science, this business.
- Nick Morton: What? And the business being?
- Dr. Henry Jekyll: Evil, Mr. Morton. Recognize, contain, examine, destroy.”
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“I don't know why the sacrifice didn't work. The science was so solid.”
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“- Gus: What's that thing called where they search for the uh... uh... DNA.
- Toula: A crime scene.
- Gus: No, no, where their families come from.
- Toula: Oh... the... find your ancestry site.”
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“If I can put that piece of the puzzle together, I can finally close the door on all this dinosaur nonsense, prove that that stuff never existed. Just a hodgepodge of different reptilian bones.”
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“Time travel made that guy a real asshole.”
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“It is the task of science to discover the truth. There is no shame attached to the recognition of error.”
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