Donald Gennaro Quotes in Jurassic Park (1993)

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Donald Gennaro Quotes:

  • Dr. Ian Malcolm: Gee, the lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me.

    Donald Gennaro: Well thank you, Dr. Malcolm, but I think things are a little bit different then you and I had feared...

    Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, I know. They're a lot worse.

    Donald Gennaro: Now, wait a second now, we haven't even seen the park...

    John Hammond: No, no, Donald, Donald, Donald... let him talk. There's no reason... I want to hear every viewpoint, I really do.

    Dr. Ian Malcolm: Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun.

    Donald Gennaro: It's hardly appropriate to start hurling generalizations...

    Dr. Ian Malcolm: If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now

    [bangs on the table]

    Dr. Ian Malcolm: you're selling it, you wanna sell it. Well...

    John Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before...

    Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.

    John Hammond: Condors. Condors are on the verge of extinction...

    Dr. Ian Malcolm: [shaking his head] No...

    John Hammond: If I was to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say.

    Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, hold on. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction.

    John Hammond: I simply don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. I mean, how can we stand in the light of discovery, and not act?

    Dr. Ian Malcolm: What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.

    Dr. Ellie Sattler: Well, the question is, how can you know anything about an extinct ecosystem? And therefore, how could you ever assume that you can control it? I mean, you have plants in this building that are poisonous, you picked them because they look good, but these are aggressive living things that have no idea what century they're in, and they'll defend themselves, violently if necessary.

    John Hammond: Dr. Grant, if there's one person here who could appreciate what I'm trying to do...

    Dr. Alan Grant: The world has just changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions, but look... Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?

    John Hammond: [laughing] I don't believe it. I don't believe it! You're meant to come down here and defend me against these characters, and the only one I've got on my side is the blood-sucking lawyer!

    Donald Gennaro: Thank you.

  • Lex: He's gonna eat the goat?

    Tim: Excellent!

    Donald Gennaro: What's the matter, kid? You never had lamb chops?

    Lex: I happen to be a vegetarian.

  • Donald Gennaro: [Tim pops up wearing a pair of night vision goggles] Hey, where'd you find that?

    Tim: In a box under my seat.

    Donald Gennaro: Are they heavy?

    Tim: Yeah.

    Donald Gennaro: Then they're expensive, put 'em back.

  • Donald Gennaro: Let's get something straight, John, this is not a weekend excursion, this is a serious investigation of the stability of the island. Your investors, whom I represent, are deeply concerned. And 48 hours from now, if they're not convinced, I'm not convinced. I'll shut you down, John.

    John Hammond: [smiles] In 48 hours, I'll be accepting your apologies.

  • Donald Gennaro: [seeing the dinosaurs for the first time] We're gonna make a fortune with this place.

  • Tim: [Tim hears a distant rumble] You feel that?

    Donald Gennaro: [Gennaro can hear it now, and sees the interior mirror in the tour car quiver with each rumble] Maybe its the power trying to come back on?

    Lex: [another rumble] What is that?

    [Tim looks through the goggles and sees the goat in the T-Rex paddock is gone, the chain still swinging]

    Lex: Where's the goat?

    [a leg from the goat lands on the roof of the car]

    Donald Gennaro: [the T-Rex is holding onto an inert electric fence, than swallows the remainder of the goat and looks at the tour car] Oh, Jesus! Oh, Jesus!

    [Gennaro gets out the car]

    Lex: He left us! He left us!

  • Donald Gennaro: [pointing at the scientists in the lab] Are these characters... auto-erotica?

    John Hammond: No, no, no. We have no animatronics here. These are the real miracle workers of Jurassic Park.

  • Donald Gennaro: And we can charge anything we want, 2,000 a day, 10,000 a day, and people will pay it. And then there's the merchandise...

    John Hammond: Donald, Donald... This park was not built to cater only for the super-rich. Everyone in the world has the right to enjoy these animals.

    Donald Gennaro: Sure, they will. Well, we'll have a, a coupon day or something.

  • Donald Gennaro: I had to promise to conduct a very thorough on-site inspection.

    Juanito Rostagno: Hammond hates inspections. They slow everything down.

    Donald Gennaro: Juanito, they'll pull the funding. That'll slow him down even more.

  • Donald Gennaro: [looking at the Jurassic Park technicians] This is overwhelming, John. Are these characters auto-erotica?

    John Hammond: No,no,no we have no animatronics here. Those people are the real miracle workers of Jurassic Park.

  • Donald Gennaro: [seeing the dinosaurs for the first time] We're gonna make a fortune with this place.

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