Isn't it true that Darwin preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case until by some extraordinary means it actually began to move with a voluntary motion?
13 seconds sound clip from the Young Frankenstein (1974) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:09:48 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- That any more than common injury to the nerve root is always serious.
- Are there any questions before we leave?
- Uh, Dr. Frank... Fronkensteen.
- Yes?
- Are you speaking of the worm or the spaghetti?
- Yes, it seems to me I did read something of that incident when I was a student.
- But you have to remember that a worm with very few exceptions is not a human being.
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