Dr. Ian Malcolm The lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here staggers me.
Most-quoted character in Jurassic Park (1993): in 33 of its 122 quotes
Most scenes with: Tim Murphy (7), Dr. Alan Grant (4), Dr. Ellie Sattler (4)
But again, how do you know they're all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh... pull up the dinosaurs' skirts?
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23 quotes Dr. Ian Malcolm Dr. Ian Malcolm So you two dig up... dig up dinosaurs?
Dr. Ian Malcolm [Upon being called a mathematician]
Chaotician, actually. Chaotician.
Dr. Ian Malcolm John, the kind of control you're attempting is not possible. If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories. It crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but - well, there it is.
Dr. Ian Malcolm [upon seeing a dinosaur for the first time; referring to Hammond]
You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it.
Dr. Ian Malcolm All major changes are like death. You can't see what is on the other side until you get there.
Dr. Ian Malcolm Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear.
Dr. Ian Malcolm God help us, we're in the hands of engineers.
Dr. Ian Malcolm God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.
Dr. Ian Malcolm [Before passing through the enormous gates and into the Jurassic Park reserve]
What have they got in there, King Kong?
Dr. Ian Malcolm [After seeing a massive pile of dinosaur dung]
That is one big pile of shit.
Dr. Ian Malcolm [After seeing Ellie dig through the mound of dino dung with her (albeit gloved) hands]
You will remember to wash your hands before you eat anything?
Dr. Ian Malcolm [After seeing a panicking Donald Gennaro fleeing to an outdoor restroom]
When you gotta go, you gotta go.
Dr. Ian Malcolm [As an escaped Tyrannosaurus Rex crosses the road in front of his car]
Boy, do I hate being right all the time.
Dr. Ian Malcolm Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend.
Dr. Ian Malcolm Anybody hear that? It's a, uh... it's an impact tremor is what it is. I'm fairly alarmed here.
Dr. Ian Malcolm Must go faster.
Dr. Ian Malcolm [After narrowly escaping a pursuing T. rex]
Think they'll have that on the tour?
Dr. Ian Malcolm John doesn't subscribe to chaos, particularly to what it has to say about his little science project.
Dr. Ian Malcolm See? That's exactly what I'm saying. Nobody could have predicted that Dr. Grant would just jump out of a moving vehicle. [Ellie opens the car door and follows Grant] There's another example. Now I'm here by myself, uh, talking to myself. That, that's Chaos Theory.
Dr. Ian Malcolm You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractions. Dr. Sattler I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.
Dr. Ian Malcolm Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
Dr. Ian Malcolm Now, eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello?
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Dr. Henry Wu You're implying that a group of animals composed entirely of females will... breed?
Ian Malcolm No, I'm simply saying that, uh... life finds a way.
Ian Malcolm God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs eat man... woman inherits the earth.
Ian Malcolm [Hammond observes Malcolm talking into an Explorer camera during an initially uneventful tour of the park]
Now, eventually you might have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello? [Raps lens] Hello, hello... [Breathes on lens] Yes?
I really hate that man.
You got any kids?
Ian Malcolm Me? Oh, hell yeah. Three. I love kids. Anything at all can and does happen. Same with wives, for that matter.
You're married?
Ian Malcolm Occasionally. Yeah, I'm... I'm always on the lookout for a future... ex-Mrs. Malcolm.
[Thunderous approaching footsteps send Donald Gennaro fleeing into a restroom]
Now where does he think he's going?
Ian Malcolm When you gotta go, you gotta go.
[Muldoon and Ellie find an injured Malcolm lying under the remains of the restroom]
He put a tourniquet on. Ian? Ian?!
Ian Malcolm Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend.
Ian Malcolm [Another roar is heard as Malcolm sits up]
Please, chance it.
All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.
Ian Malcolm Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
We're out of a job.
Ian Malcolm Don't you mean extinct?
[The guests arrive at the theatre. Hammond walks over to the movie screen where a projected version of himself hobbles into view, clutching a cane topped with an amber-imprisoned mosquito]
Oh, here he comes. Well, here I come. [He walks over to the screen after the screen Hammond appears] Hello, John. [Gestures to audience] Say hello.
Screen Hammond
Hello, John!
Screen Hammond
How did I get here?
Well, let me show you. First, I'll need a drop of blood. Your blood. [pokes the screen Hammond's finger with a needle]
Screen Hammond
Ouch! John, that hurt!
Relax, John. It's all part of the miracle of cloning.
Screen Hammond #1
[A second Hammond appears on the screen]
Hello, John.
Screen Hammond #2
Hello, John.
Screen Hammond #2
[A third Hammond appears with the others]
Hello.
Screen Hammond #3
Hello, John.
[As the screen Hammonds continue to multiply and greet each other, filling the screen]
Cloning from what? Loy extraction has never recreated an intact DNA strand.
Ian Malcolm Not without massive sequence gaps.
Paleo-DNA from what source? Where do you get 100-million-year-old dinosaur blood?
Screen Hammond
[As the presentation goes on, an animated DNA strand flies out of the screen Hammond's finger, slides down his head and raps on his shoulder]
Oh, Mr. DNA! Where'd you come from?
Mr. DNA From your blood. Just one drop of your blood contains billions of strands of DNA, the building blocks of life! [He appears behind a blue background and takes over the presentation] A DNA strand, like me, is a blueprint for building a living thing. And sometimes, animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their blueprints behind for us to find. We just had to know where to look. [He pushes away the blueprint background to show a mosquito on the back of a dinosaur] A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes, just like today. And just like today, they fed on the blood of animals. Even dinosaurs. [The mosquito, its abdomen filled with dinosaur blood, flies to a tree. The next scene shows a real mosquito fighting its way through running tree sap] Sometimes, after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would land on the branch of a tree and get stuck in the sap. [The next scene shows two animated miners digging underground. One of them finds the mosquito imprisoned in the amber] After a long time, the sap got hardened and became fossilized, just like a dinosaur bone, preserving the mosquito inside. This fossilized tree sap, which we call "amber," waited millions of years with the mosquito inside until Jurassic Park scientists came along. [The next scene shows a scientist drilling into the amber and extracting the blood from the mosquito with a needle] Using sophisticated techniques, they extract the preserved blood and bingo! Dino DNA! [An orange background shows genetic codes traveling at light speed as if they are cars and trains, making Mr. DNA dizzy] A full DNA strand contains three billion genetic codes. If we looked at screens like these once a second for eight hours a day, it'd take two years to look at the entire strand! It's that long! And since it's so old, it's full of holes! That's where our geneticists take over! [A genetic code speeds by, pushing him off screen to show shows scientists in a laboratory, taking eggs out of incubators] Thinking Machines supercomputers and gene sequencers break down the strand in minutes and virtual reality displays shows our geneticists the gaps in the DNA sequence. Since most animal DNA is 90% identical, we used the complete DNA of a frog... [The next scene shows a bullfrog which later cuts to an actual DNA strand with a hole in it. Mr. DNA carries the letters "G," C," A," and "T."] ...to fill the... holes and... complete the... [He fills in the hole of the DNA strand] ...Codes! And now, we can make a baby dinosaur. [The scene then cuts to an egg which hatches into a baby dinosaur]
