- Ian: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs...Ellie: Dinosaurs eat man … woman inherits the earth.
- Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
- [while being chased by the T-Rex] Must go faster.
- Oh, what's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it observes. What you call discovery … I call the rape of the natural world.
- But again, how do you know they're all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh … pull up the dinosaurs' skirts?
- [Malcolm walks up to a huge mound of dino-droppings] That is one big pile of shit.
- Life finds a way.
- Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
- If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, ah, well, there it is.
- 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
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