You're doing more than breaking army orders. You're robbing science of the greatest secrets that ever come to it.

You'd better go back, Doctor.

Knowledge is more important than life, Captain. We've only one excuse for existing - to think, to find out, to learn.

What can we learn from that thing except a quicker way to die?

It doesn't matter what happens to us. Nothing counts except for our thinking. We thought our way into nature. We split the atom.

Yes, and that sure made the world happy, didn't it?