Dr. Conrad Zimsky Quotes in The Core (2003)

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Dr. Conrad Zimsky Quotes:

  • Dr. Conrad Zimsky: [trapped in a compartment of Virgil with a nuclear bomb set to detonate; recording himself for posterity] For here, in the great unknowable, man can come to know the most important thing of all - himself. He can understand...

    [trails off]

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: What the fuck am I doing?

    [begins laughing hysterically; the nuclear bomb explodes]

  • Col. Robert Iverson: People. Doctors Zimsky and Keyes? You guys are our resident geophysicists, so what do you make of this?

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: The mantle is a chemical hodgepodge of, a, variety of elements...

    Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Say it with me: "I don't know."

  • Taz 'Rat' Finch: How many languages do you speak?

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Five, actually.

    Taz 'Rat' Finch: Well, I speak one... One Zero One Zero Zero. With that I could steal your money, your secrets, your sexual fantasies, your whole life. Any country, any place, any time I want. We multitask like you breathe. I couldn't think as slow as you if I tried.

  • Dr. Conrad Zimsky: [cheerfully] Hello Braz!

    Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: [chuckles] Why the hell aren't you dead yet? Okay, this way.

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: [to Josh] Well, that went better than I expected.

  • Dr. Conrad Zimsky: M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. A perfect acronym if ever there was one.

    Dr. Josh Keyes: Beautiful.

  • Dr. Josh Keyes: Why do you get dibs on being the hero?

    Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Because it's my damn ship.

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Oh that makes perfect sense.

    Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Look, for twenty years I've done nothing but 'Virgil.' Twenty years. 'Virgil' belongs to me, and I will not let her fail. I will not. Now, if you want to know what's worth dying for: this ship. Building it instead of imagining it. If 'Virgil' needs more blood, it will be my blood.

  • Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Oh, come on, you're a bunch of suicidal morons! What are you, crazy? Plan C? Restart the core "somehow"? Oh, that's a great idea! That's a brilliant idea! I can't believe I'm stuck in this floating septic tank with you lunatics! You may have nothing to lose. You may have nothing to lose! You may have nothing to lose, but I have my life to lose thank you very much while you're up! Now turn it around! He told us to go back and we're going back! Why? You want to be a hero? You want to be a martyr? What do you want to be? You're out of your mind! Thank you! Turn it around!

  • [Zimsky has an idea]

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Are you interested?

    Dr. Josh Keyes: Yes.

    [sounding very frustrated]

    Dr. Josh Keyes: We're interested.

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: [calmly] Then let me smoke a cigarette, and I'll tell you.

  • Dr. Josh Keyes: As the EM field becomes more and more unstable, we'll start seeing isolated incidents - one plane will fall from the sky, then two, then, in a few month, anything, everything electronic will be fried.

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Static discharges in the atmosphere will create superstorms with hundreds of lightning strikes per square mile.

    Dr. Josh Keyes: After that, it gets bad.

  • Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Thomas? Um, look... it seems Destini may have caught up with us.

  • Col. Robert Iverson: Forgive me, but, you know I'm not the expert here, but what if the core is thicker or thinner? I mean, what if it's not what you think it is? Isn't that going to affect the way the explosions are...

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Yes, yes, yes, yes, and what if the core is made of cheese? This is all best guess commander. That's all science is, is best guess.

    Col. Robert Iverson: So my best guess is you don't know.

  • Dr. Josh Keyes: So, we hotwire the nukes, as one does. We seed them through the core at locations that have to be accurate to the inch. We detonate them in a sequence that has to be accurate to the millisecond. Then we outrun the biggest nuclear shockwave in history.

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Right.

    Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Yeah.

    Dr. Josh Keyes: I mean, that should be fairly simple.

  • Dr. Conrad Zimsky: Braz. Edward

    Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzelton: Yes, Conrad?

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky: You're right, it is your ship. But I wish to God it had been ours.

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