Young man, these devices, self-serviced, self-maintained have stood exactly as you see them for 2000 centuries.
— Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), Morbius
11 seconds sound clip from the Forbidden Planet (1956) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:58:22 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Otherwise, my researches here would've come to nothing... poor as they have been.
- A civilization without instrumentalities?
- Everything here is new. Not a sign of age or wear on any of it.
- Two thousand centuries. And during all this time, what was the power source?
- That's a very good question.
- May I draw your attention to these gauges all around here, gentlemen.
- Their calibrations appear to indicate that they are set in decimal series.
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