I wonder. That is the most important question to which I hope to find an answer.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

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8 seconds sound clip from the The Time Machine (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:11:25 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- All right, now you've had your little joke. Suppose you tell us what this contraption is really for.

- I've already told you, Doctor.

- The larger model can be used to carry a passenger on a journey through time. Not through space, mind you, but through time.

- If you're going to start floating about in the future, won't you gonna rather mess things up for the rest of us?

- The future's already there. It's irrevocable and cannot be changed.

- I wonder. That is the most important question to which I hope to find an answer.

- Can man control his destiny? Can he change the shape of things to come?

- Now, look here, if you've gone out of your head, I forgive you.

- But if you've made us waste all this time...

- No, no, no, no! You're here as witnesses. To see, not to listen.

[...]

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You're right, David. That's exactly what I have. All the time in the world.
Why is it that we usually ignore the forth dimension? Because we have no freedom of movement within it. You see, we can move in the other three: Up, down, forward, sideways, backward, but when it comes to time, we are prisoners.
There is no past.
You ask many questions.

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