Why not experiment with the more complex organisms?
6 seconds sound clip from the Island of Lost Souls (1932) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:31:05 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- That's unfortunately what happened to some asparagus.
- I went on with this research just as it led me. I let my imagination run fantastically ahead.
- Why not experiment with the more complex organisms?
- Man is the present climax of a long process of organic revolution.
- All animal life is tending toward the human form.
- I was still in London when I began this phase of my experiments.
- One day a dog escaped from my laboratory, ran shrieking into the street.
- And I left London, the newspapers at my heels, an aroused England crying for my blood.
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