I bring scientists, you bring a rockstar
May. 11th, 2007 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intertribalMalcolm: The kind of control you're attempting is not possible because if there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but uh... well, there it is.
Malcolm: Gee, the lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here... staggers me.
Gennaro: Well, thank you, Dr. Malcolm, but I think things are a little bit different than what you and I feared.
Malcolm: No, I know, they're a lot worse.
Gennaro: Now, wait a second, we haven't even seen the park yet...
Hammond: No, no, let him talk.
Malcolm: Don't you see the danger, John, inherent, in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun. I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using. It didn't require any discipline to attain it. You know, you read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now, you're selling it, you're selling it. Well...
Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody has ever done before.
Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Hammond: Condors! Condors are on the verge of extinction.
Malcolm: No...
Hammond: If I was to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say.
Malcolm: Now hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot and nature selected them for extinction.
Hammond: I simply don't understand this luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery and not act?
Malcolm: Well, what's so great about discovery. It's a violent, penetrative act, it scars and destroys. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
Malcolm: Oh, God help us, we're in the hands of engineers.
Malcolm: Now eventually you might have, uh, dinosaurs on your, uh, dinosaur tour, right?
Hammond: I really hate that man.
Malcolm: See here I'm now by myself, uh, talking to myself. That's chaos theory.
Malcolm: Kids okay?
Grant: I didn't ask, why wouldn't they be.
Malcolm: Kids get scared.
Grant: There's nothing to be scared about, it's just a hiccup in the power...
Malcolm: I didn't say I was scared.
Grant: I didn't say you were scared.
Malcolm: I know.
Malcolm (as the t-rex is breaking through the fence): Boy, do I hate being right all the time.
Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.
Malcolm: Yeah, but John, if Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
Malcolm: Gee, the lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here... staggers me.
Gennaro: Well, thank you, Dr. Malcolm, but I think things are a little bit different than what you and I feared.
Malcolm: No, I know, they're a lot worse.
Gennaro: Now, wait a second, we haven't even seen the park yet...
Hammond: No, no, let him talk.
Malcolm: Don't you see the danger, John, inherent, in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun. I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using. It didn't require any discipline to attain it. You know, you read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now, you're selling it, you're selling it. Well...
Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody has ever done before.
Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Hammond: Condors! Condors are on the verge of extinction.
Malcolm: No...
Hammond: If I was to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say.
Malcolm: Now hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot and nature selected them for extinction.
Hammond: I simply don't understand this luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery and not act?
Malcolm: Well, what's so great about discovery. It's a violent, penetrative act, it scars and destroys. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
Malcolm: Oh, God help us, we're in the hands of engineers.
Malcolm: Now eventually you might have, uh, dinosaurs on your, uh, dinosaur tour, right?
Hammond: I really hate that man.
Malcolm: See here I'm now by myself, uh, talking to myself. That's chaos theory.
Malcolm: Kids okay?
Grant: I didn't ask, why wouldn't they be.
Malcolm: Kids get scared.
Grant: There's nothing to be scared about, it's just a hiccup in the power...
Malcolm: I didn't say I was scared.
Grant: I didn't say you were scared.
Malcolm: I know.
Malcolm (as the t-rex is breaking through the fence): Boy, do I hate being right all the time.
Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.
Malcolm: Yeah, but John, if Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
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Date: 2007-05-13 05:01 am (UTC)