Lucy 2014 quotes

Lucy

Professor Norman, my name's Lucy, I just read all your research on the human brain — we need to meet.

Professor Norman

All my research? Wow, I'm very flattered young lady, but I find that hard to believe. I must have written no less than—

Lucy

Six thousand seven hundred thirty four pages. I can recite them to you all by heart, if you wish.

Professor Norman

Are you one of Emily's friends? This sounds like one of her silly jokes. Is she there with you?

Lucy

No, I'm on my own.

Professor Norman

Who are you?

Lucy

I just told you.

Professor Norman

Uh, Lucy, right? Yes. Sorry.

Lucy

I read your theory on the use of the brain's capacity. It’s a little rudimentary but you're on the right track.

Professor Norman

I thank you.

Lucy

Professor, my cells are reproducing at a phenomenal speed, several million per second. I'm having trouble precisely evaluating the time of my death, but I doubt if I'll last more than 24 hours.

Professor Norman

All this knowledge, Lucy — I'm not even sure that mankind is ready for it. We're so driven by power and profit. Given man's nature, it might bring us only instability and chaos.

Lucy

Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge. I'll build a computer and download my knowledge in it. I'll find a way for you to have access to it.

Professor Norman

Yeah … I just hope … we will be worthy of your sacrifice.

Professor Norman

But now we are entering the realms of science-fiction, and we don’t know any more than the dog who watches the moon.

Excuse me sir.

Professor Norman

Yes?

But what would happen, if for some reason we ignore, somebody unlocked 100% of the cerebral capacity?

Professor Norman

One hundred percent?

Yes.

Professor Norman

I have no idea.

I'm sorry, I really have no choice. The sooner you go in the sooner you'll be back out.

Lucy

I can't believe you're doing this to me!

I'll be right here, you have my word.

Lucy

Your word isn't worth shit!

It's worth 500 bucks, up front.

Lucy

You’re an asshole.

You're wonderful.

Pregnant women manufacture CPH4 in their sixth week of pregnancy — in tiny quantities. For a baby, it packs the power of an atomic bomb. It's what gives the fetus the necessary energy to form all the bones in its body. I'd heard they were trying to make a synthetic version of it — didn't realize they'd succeeded. If it really is CPH4, in this quantity, I'm amazed you're still alive.

Lucy

Not for long.

Professor Norman

If its habitat is not sufficiently favorable or nurturing, the cell will choose immortality. In other words, self-sufficiency and self-management.
On the other hand, if the habitat is favorable, they will choose to reproduce—that way, when they die, they hand essential information and knowledge to the next cell, which hands it down to the next cell, and so on. Thus knowledge and learning are handed down, through time.
Lecturing on his newly published research

Jang's agent: [in Korean; subtitled] That girl doesn't quit. She is a witch.

I know that. I will kill her myself.

Professor Norman

And it is going through time that seems to be also the only real purpose of each of the cells in our bodies. To achieve that aim, the mass of the cells that make up earthworms and human beings has only two solutions—be immortal or to reproduce.

Lucy

Every cell knows and talks to every other cell. They exchange a thousand bits of information between themselves per second. Cells join together forming a joint web of communication, which in turn forms matter. Cells get together, take on one form, deform, reform — makes no difference, they're all the same. Humans consider themselves unique, so they've rooted their whole theory of existence on their uniqueness. "One" is their unit of "measure" — but it's not. All social systems we've put into place are a mere sketch: "one plus one equals two", that's all we've learned, but one plus one has never equaled two — there are in fact no numbers and no letters, we've codified our existence to bring it down to human size, to make it comprehensible, we've created a scale so we can forget its unfathomable scale.

Professor Norman

For the moment it's just hypothesis, I confess. But if you think about it, it's troubling to realize that the Greeks, the Egyptians and the Indians had notion of cells centuries before the invention of the microscope. And what's to say about Darwin whom everyone took for a fool when he put forth his theory of evolution? It's up to us to push the rules and laws, and go from evolution, to revolution.

Lucy

I AM EVERYWHERE

Lucy

I can start to control other peoples' bodies. Also I can control magnetic and electric waves, and — not all of them, just the most basic — television, telephone, radio. … I don't feel pain, fear, desire. It's like all things that make us human are fading away. It's like the less human I feel, all this knowledge about everything, quantum physics, applied mathematics, the infinite capacity of the cell's nucleus, they're all exploding inside my brain. All this knowledge. I don't know what to do with it.

Lucy

I feel everything. Space, the air, the vibrations, the people, I can feel the gravity, I can feel the rotation of the Earth, the heat leaving my body, the blood in my veins. I can feel my brain. The deepest parts of my memory.i wish you can feel the same.

Professor Norman

If you're asking me what to do with all this knowledge you're accumulating, I say, pass it on … just like any simple cell, going through time.

Lucy

Learning's always a painful process. Like when you're little and your bones are growing and you ache all over. Do you believe I can remember the sound of my own bones growing? Like this grinding under the skin. Everything's different now. Like sounds are music that I can understand, like fluids. It's funny, I used to be so concerned with who I was and what I wanted to be, and now that I have access to the furthest reaches of my brain, I see things clearly and realize that what makes us "us" — it's primitive. They're all obstacles. Does that make any sense?
Like this pain you're experiencing. It's blocking you from understanding. All you know now is pain. That's all you know, pain.
Where are the others? The others carrying the drugs. I need the rest of it. For medicinal purposes.