Unknown World (1951)

Bruce Kellogg: Wright Thompson

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• Dr. James Paxton : Nature doesn't influence Man! Man influences Nature! One man, one strong man can change Nature!

  Wright Thompson : Oh, you're wrong, Dr. Paxton. It isn't one man, it's many men working together.

  [Looking at Dr. Joan Lindsey] 

  Wright Thompson : Right, teacher?

  Dr. James Paxton : Men together are no more than sheep! One man standing alone leads the way, and the sheep follow!

• Wright Thompson : What kind of place is this? Flowers that crumble to dust in your hand, stones that look like pearls, fish without eyes! Nature's sure a practical joker!

  Dr. Jeremiah Morley : I suppose you could've done better?

  Wright Thompson : In 10 million years I couldn'ta done worse!

• Wright Thompson : You don't like my kind of guy, do you?

  Dr. Joan Lindsey : Not very much, but I'll make an exception in your case-you, I don't like a lot.

• Wright Thompson : [referring to the scientists]  Don't they ever talk?

  Andy Ostergaard : Not unless they got something to say. That's the way it is with smart people,

  Wright Thompson : Maybe they're not so smart. Maybe they don't know what they're doin' down here.

  Andy Ostergaard : Listen, buster. Each one of them has taught at more colleges than you flunked out of.

  Wright Thompson : So what are you doing down here among all those brains?

  Andy Ostergaard : I manage to make myself useful. It might be well if you did the same thing.