The world has just changed so radically and we’re all running to catch up.
T-Rex doesn’t want to be fed. He wants to hunt. You can’t just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct.
Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I’ve decided not to endorse your park.
I love kids. Anything at all can and does happen. Same with wives, for that matter.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should.[to John]
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.]
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 can discuss sexism in survival situations when I get back.[to John]
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Life finds a way.
If there’s one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it’s that life will not be contained. Life breaks free.
I don’t blame people for their mistakes. But I do ask that they pay for them.
Genetic power’s the most awesome force the planet’s ever seen but you wield it like a kid that’s found his dad’s gun.[to John]