Eric: I'm sorry about Billy.
Dr. Grant: You know what the last thing I said to him was? I said, "You're as bad as the people that built this place." Which wasn't true. Billy was just...young. That's all. I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to- gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety.
Eric: But then you never get to go into space.
Dr. Grant: Exactly. That's the difference between imagining and seeing; to be able to touch them. And that's...that's all that Billy wanted.
Eric: Dr. Grant.
[clearing opens up to show a group of dinosaurs]
Eric: Know something, Dr. Grant? Billy was right.
Dr. Grant: You know what the last thing I said to him was? I said, "You're as bad as the people that built this place." Which wasn't true. Billy was just...young. That's all. I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to- gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety.
Eric: But then you never get to go into space.
Dr. Grant: Exactly. That's the difference between imagining and seeing; to be able to touch them. And that's...that's all that Billy wanted.
Eric: Dr. Grant.
[clearing opens up to show a group of dinosaurs]
Eric: Know something, Dr. Grant? Billy was right.
Eric : I'm sorry about Billy.
Dr. Grant : You know what the last thing I said to him was? I said, "You're as bad as the people that built this place." Which wasn't true. Billy was just...young. That's all. I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts. The astronomer, or the paleontologist, gets to- gets to study these amazing things from a place of complete safety.
Eric : But then you never get to go into space.
Dr. Grant : Exactly. That's the difference between imagining and seeing; to be able to touch them. And that's...that's all that Billy wanted.
Eric : Dr. Grant.
[clearing opens up to show a group of dinosaurs]
Eric : Know something, Dr. Grant? Billy was right.
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