Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should.[to John]
You want some good parental advice? Don’t listen to me.[to Kelly]
Yeah, but, John, if The Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don’t eat the tourists.[John Hammond: This is just a delay. That’s all it is. All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.]
Where you’re going is the only place in the world where the geese chase you.[Nick van Owen: Hammond’s check cleared, or I wouldn’t be going on this wild goose chase.]
When you try to sound like Hammond, it just comes off like a hustle. I mean, it’s not your fault. They say talent skips a generation. So, I’m sure your kids are gonna be sharp as tacks.[to Peter]
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.[to John]
We not only lack dominion over nature, we’re subordinate to it.
There aren’t any “versions” of the truth.[to Peter]
So you went from capitalist to naturalist in just four years. That’s something.[to John]
Oh, yeah. “Ooh, ah,” that’s how it always starts. But then later there’s running and then screaming.[Eddie Carr: This is magnificent.]
No, you’re making all new ones.[John Hammond: Don’t worry. I’m not making the same mistakes again.]
Life finds a way.
