Donald Ripley Energy, always relaying, always transforming, and never-ending.
Played by Jeff Goldblum 
Powder (1995) · 37 quotes
Powder (1995) · 37 quotes
Tied for 4th most-quoted character in Powder (1995): in 4 of its 37 quotes
A line from Donald RipleyWe're stumbling around in a very dark age basically trying not to kill each other. So it hurts me when you say "So what?" Because you are not just different, Jeremy, I think you have a mind that we won't evolve to for like thousands of years — you're maybe the man of the future right here and now.
More lines from Donald Ripley
2 quotes Donald Ripley Donald Ripley Something's happened here. Something's happened here. I'm telling you, with everything we know, about science, about the makeup of the human body, what happened in that classroom is impossible. That kid attracted an arc of electricity from thirty feet away, and not just from the Jacob's Ladder, I mean, after a second it was like it was coming out of the whole… building.
Scenes with Donald Ripley
1 scene Donald Ripley "It's become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
Albert Einstein.*
Donald Ripley I look at you, and I think that someday our humanity might actually surpass our technology.
* Though this is quoted as Einstein in Voices of Truth : Conversations with Scientists, Thinkers, and Healers (2000) by Nina L. Diamond, p. 429, there are no published sources of this statement yet located earlier than its occurence in this film.
