Jurassic Park
MALCOLM
The problem with scientific power you’ve used is 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 yourselves, so you didn’t take the responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you knew what you had, you patented it, packaged it, slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and now you want to sell it.
HAMMOND
You don’t give us our due credit. Our scientists have done things no one could ever do before.
MALCOLM
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should. Science can create pesticides, but it can’t tell us not to use them. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it can’t tell us not to build it!
