- We fought our way into nature, we've split the atom.
- Yes, and that sure made the world happy, didn't it?

— Dr. Arthur Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite)

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7 seconds sound clip from the The Thing from Another World movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:17:18 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- There you are, again. You can't ignore orders from your commanding officer.

- You can testify to that effect at my court-martial.

- You're doing more than breaking army orders. You're robbing science of the greatest secret that's ever come to it.

- Knowledge is more important than life, captain. We've only one excuse for existing... to think, to find out, to learn.

- 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!

- Get him out of here. Come on!

- Oh, you fool. You'll never hurt it. It's wiser.

[...]

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