- Who is the greatest man in America today?
- Gee, I don't know. The space man, I guess.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:16:44 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- Hey, before we go to the movies, would you like to see the Abraham Lincoln Memorial?
- Well, this is it. That's the Gettysburg speech up there.
- That's the kind of man I'd like to talk to.
- Who is the greatest man in America today?
- Gee, I don't know. The space man, I guess.
- I was speaking of earth men.
- Oh, I don't know. The President?
- I mean the greatest philosopher, the greatest thinker, scholar.
- Oh. Well, that's Professor Barnhardt, I guess.
- He's the greatest scientist in the world. He lives right here in Washington.
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