Gee, the lack of humility before nature that’s being displayed here, uh… staggers me.
Well thank you, Dr. Malcolm, but I think things are a little bit different than you and I had feared…
Yeah, I know. They’re a lot worse.
Now, wait a second, we haven’t even seen the park…
No, Donald, let him talk. There’s no reason… I want to hear every viewpoint, I really do.
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.
It’s hardly appropriate to start hurling generalizations…
I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power you’re using
here: it didn’t require any discipline to attain it. 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,
you’ve patented it, and packaged it, you’ve slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now
[pounds table with fists]
you’re selling it.
[pounds table again]
You want to sell it, well…
I don’t think you’re giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody’s ever done before…
Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
Condors! Condors are on the verge of extinction…
No…
If I was to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn’t have anything to say.
No. Hold on. This isn’t some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.
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?
What’s so great about discovery? It’s a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.”
– Jurassic Park (the movie…the book is a lot better)