Jurassic Park Quotes
"We’re going to have to do this the old-fashioned way."
"Fossil protection ordinarily consisted of a tarp over the site, and a trench around the perimeter to control water runoff."
"You never call me any more. I’ve missed you, Donald."
"The concept of the most advanced amusement park in the world, combining the latest electronic and biological technologies."
"To make a park that runs with minimal staff."
"The plain fact is, when you put together all the animals and all the computer systems, you run into snags."
"Seat belts, please. We’re landing in Choteau."
"The very idea is preposterous. Universities are the backwater."
"If you want to make your mark. If you want to get something done, stay out of universities."
"We haven’t re-created the past here. The past is gone. It can never be re-created."
"But we could easily breed slower, more domesticated dinosaurs."
"We’re just making a zoo here. World’s full of ’em, and they all work fine."
"We’ve engineered the animals and engineered the resort."
"They aren’t experiencing the wonder of it at all."
"I don’t think so," Arnold said. "You’ve got to realize that, from an engineering standpoint, Jurassic Park is by far the most ambitious theme park in history."
"These are expensive animals, Mr. Gennaro. We take very good care of them."
"These animals are created. Created by man. Sometimes there are bugs."
"But they’re not real now," Wu said. "That’s what I’m trying to tell you."
"Hell, we’re just making a zoo here. World’s full of ’em, and they all work fine."
"We believe in the park. Let’s see how it plays out."
"We monitor them on video, and I’ve checked droppings just to be certain."
"The greatest predator the world has ever known. The most fearsome attack in human history."
"That’s a terrible idea. A very poor use of new technology."
"Nobody needs entertainment. That’s not a matter for government intervention."
"If you charge five thousand dollars a day for my park, who is going to stop me?"
"A visit becomes a status symbol, and all Americans love that."
"This is my island. I own it. And nothing is going to stop me from opening Jurassic Park to all the children of the world."
"DNA was an incredibly ancient substance. Human beings, walking around in the modern world, hardly stopped to think that the substance at the center of it all—the substance that began the dance of life—was a chemical almost as old as the earth itself."
"It’s because they want to do research, of course. That’s all they ever want to do, is research. Not to accomplish anything. Not to make any progress. Just do research."
"Dinosaurs have excellent visual acuity, but they have a basic amphibian visual system: it’s attuned to movement. They don’t see unmoving things well at all."
"He was holding his own intestines in his hands. The dinosaur had torn him open. His guts had fallen out."
"Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way."
"Chaos theory throws it right out the window. It says that you can never predict certain phenomena at all."
"The history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers."
"Most DNA in living creatures was exactly the same. DNA was so old that its evolution had essentially finished more than two billion years ago."
"He wasn’t embarrassed that he had been hiding, but now he had to take charge."
"It was very quiet. His feet splashed in the muddy puddles."
"Grant himself was all right except for a claw abrasion down his right chest, where the tyrannosaur had kicked him."
"The publicist was pressed up against the trunk of a big tree, hugging it."
""Looks almost like headlights," Harding said."
""God damn it, Arnold, you son of a bitch! God damn it, get this park back on track! Now!"
""I don’t want a Malcolm Effect here," Hammond said."
""We haven’t been able to raise them," Muldoon said."
""Doesn’t seem right to leave it here. Christ, it’s going to make a mess of the car."
""The kid must have been in this car, after the attack."
""But perhaps he couldn’t stay here. Maybe the tyrannosaur came back."
""Let’s not get carried away. We’ve had a little breakdown from the storm or whatever,"
""I’m tired," Lex said. "Carry me, Dr. Grant."
"Grant opened his eyes and saw an enormous beige head."
""Forget it," Lex said. "I’m not staying here.""
""I hope it’s a big raft," Lex said, "because I can’t swim."
""I told you!" Lex screamed. "Nobody listens to me!"
""Are you sure there’s a raft down here?" Lex said."
""Not me," Lex said. "I’m not walking out there any more."
"Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it."
"All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there."
"The basic idea of science—that it was objective, that it did not depend on your beliefs or your nationality, that it was rational—was fresh and exciting."
"Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. They never stop to ask if they should do something."
"The grand vision of science, hundreds of years old—the dream of total control—has died, in our century."
"We are witnessing the end of the scientific era. Science is destroying itself."
"Science, like other outmoded systems, is destroying itself. As it gains in power, it proves itself incapable of handling the power."
"Scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step."
"The medieval world didn’t work economically, it didn’t work intellectually, and it didn’t fit the new world that was emerging."
"Science has always said that it may not know everything now but it will know, eventually. But now we see that isn’t true."
"Life would survive our folly. Only we think it wouldn't."
"You can make a boat, but you can't make the ocean."
"The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us."
"We haven't got the power to destroy the planet—or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."
"To the earth, a hundred years is nothing. A million years is nothing."
"We are residents here for the blink of an eye. If we are gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us."
"You sold investors on an undertaking you didn't fully understand."
"Your powers are much less than your dreams of reason would have you believe."
"That was how progress occurred. By solving problems."
"In truth, neither Wu nor Arnold had had the most important characteristic, Hammond decided. The characteristic of vision."
"Lost in his thoughts, he headed toward his bungalow, following the little path that ran north from the visitor center."
"He shivered, hearing that sound. It was terrifying, a scream from some other world."
"Everything looks different on the other side."
"Because everything looks different on the other side."
"He felt as if he were breathing through a sponge."
"Personally, he expected to live to be a hundred."
"He felt only a slight pain, very slight, as the compy bent to chew his neck."
"He thought of the dinosaurs standing on the beach, and he wondered where they would migrate if they could."