Dr. Carrington: You're doing more than breaking army orders. You're robbing science of the greatest secrets that ever come to it.
Capt. Hendry: You'd better go back, Doctor.
Dr. Carrington: Knowledge is more important than life, Captain. We've only one excuse for existing - to think, to find out, to learn.
Ned Scott: What can we learn from that thing except a quicker way to die?
Dr. Carrington: It doesn't matter what happens to us. Nothing counts except for our thinking. We thought our way into nature. We split the atom.
Lt. ****s: Yes, and that sure made the world happy, didn't it?
Capt. Hendry: You'd better go back, Doctor.
Dr. Carrington: Knowledge is more important than life, Captain. We've only one excuse for existing - to think, to find out, to learn.
Ned Scott: What can we learn from that thing except a quicker way to die?
Dr. Carrington: It doesn't matter what happens to us. Nothing counts except for our thinking. We thought our way into nature. We split the atom.
Lt. ****s: Yes, and that sure made the world happy, didn't it?
Dr. Carrington : You're doing more than breaking army orders. You're robbing science of the greatest secrets that ever come to it.
Capt. Hendry : You'd better go back, Doctor.
Dr. Carrington : Knowledge is more important than life, Captain. We've only one excuse for existing - to think, to find out, to learn.
Ned Scott : What can we learn from that thing except a quicker way to die?
Dr. Carrington : It doesn't matter what happens to us. Nothing counts except for our thinking. We thought our way into nature. We split the atom.
Lt. ****s : Yes, and that sure made the world happy, didn't it?
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