Bones (TV Series)
The Science in the Physicist (2009)
Emily Deschanel: Temperance Brennan
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Quotes
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : You know what? You're the only smart person I really like.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Thank you.
[They start to leave interrogation together]
Dr. Lance Sweets : What about me?
[the door closes]
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : You're testing me on the cancer chair?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Well, you're wearing a suit. Plus it's not radioactive anymore... We're going to need to take this chair.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : No. No. No. No. You don't just go around doing human testing on people, Bones!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : It's just...
Special Agent Seeley Booth : I gotta go to the bathroom.
[Booth leaves]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I touched it with my bare hands... See?
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Angela Montenegro : [Rising up] Sweetie, can you pay for this? I have to go.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Sure. Why?
Angela Montenegro : I have to save Hodgins's life.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : You disapprove of the Collar Institute?
Dr. Jack Hodgins : Up and forward are only two directions. Science should look in all directions. You taught me that.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I did?
Dr. Jack Hodgins : Everyday.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Thank you.
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Dr. Jack Hodgins : [From inside the lab] FIRE IN THE HOLE!
[Cannon goes off. Booth tries to shield Bones]
Special Agent Seeley Booth : What the hell was that?
Dr. Jack Hodgins : [Hodgins exits the lab] We're okay. Everything's okay.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : We should get out of here before lock down. Let Cam deal with it.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Yeah. All right.
[They both run for the exit as the alarm goes off]
Dr. Camille Saroyan : [to Hodgins and Nigel] You know you're grounded, right?
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : So you think that two people who care about each other, they leave metamophorical marks which should be allowed to fade naturally?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : You heard me but you just didn't understand me.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I wonder that about you all the time.
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : Okay, listen... We just gotta stop hanging out with geniuses because you're gonna figure out that I'm really stupid.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : What? Don't worry about that.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Hmm?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I figured out a long time ago how stupid you are.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Hmm.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : What I just said is... true. And yet it... really sounded wrong. What I should say is that I don't care how stupid you are... It's not any better?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : No. No. Not at all.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [the squints join them] Okay, well, there is intelligence which I have, and Mr. Nigel-Murray.
Vincent Nigel-Murray : Oh thank you.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : And Sweets, even though, his is so misdirected as to be meaningless.
Dr. Lance Sweets : Wow. Backhand full of knuckles with that compliment.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : And Hodgins... And Angela... not so much, but she's very talented.
Angela Montenegro : Thank you very much.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : You're welcome. But then there's another quality. Which is the ability to use intelligence. That is what you have.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Thanks Bones.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I was turned down for a fellowship here at the institute.
Landis Collar : No, no. That is not true. Your anthropological research was rejected because it looked to the past, not the future.
[speaks briefly in Latin]
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : [translating for Booth] To eternity, to glory, to the future.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : [smiling] Right. Then why say your motto in a dead, ancient language?
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Landis Collar : [after hitting Booth] That's for killing my fiancée.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : One person to your left Dr. Collar.
Landis Collar : [Collar hits the right target this time] My apologies Agent Booth. My echo-locator must have malfunctioned.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : What possible information could this experiment provide us that you couldn't get mathematically?
Dr. Jack Hodgins : Mathematics is theory. This is a real-world recreation.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : In order to prove what, exactly?
Vincent Nigel-Murray : That a frozen person, struck by a meteorite, would turn into chili con carne.
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : What exactly are you working on?
Milton Alvaredo : I am endeavoring to find a way to transmit single-cell organisms, using common pond scum, from one location to another.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : You ever try a spoon?
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Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : You've heard of Landis Collar, right?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : Sure, I have. Mm hm. Blind guy. World's leading expert in superconductivity.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Do you even know what superconductivity is?
Special Agent Seeley Booth : I know it's better than normal conductivity.