Knowledge is more important than life, captain. We've only one excuse for existing... to think, to find out, to learn.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Thing from Another World movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:17:06 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Every word. I hope that's all I hear.
- So do I.
- Oh captain, here's another message. This one's relayed from Washington.
- There you are, again. You can't ignore orders from your commanding officer.
- You can testify to that effect at my court-martial.
- What can we learn from that thing, except a quicker way to die?
- It doesn't matter what happens to us. Nothing counts except our thinking.
- We fought our way into nature, we've split the atom.
- Yes, and that sure made the world happy, didn't it?
- We owe it to the brain of our species to stand here and die without destroying a source of wisdom.
- Civilization has given us orders!
[...]
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