[ Looks into the camera like he's on the office. ]
It can be, unless you're careful.
But within science is sheer awe, and none can quite surpass the rush of power one gets when you manage to achieve greater understanding, and through greater understanding can manipulate forces beyond the average man to your will.
[Part of Newt agrees and is drawn to this kind of attitude himself. Part of Newt just hears more of this pretentious bullshit and is more or less doing this. Still, he can respond in kind.]
Isn't that always the lure of science? The desire to achieve, to understand, and to do the things others can only imagine? The chance to pioneer, even at the cost of your life. To challenge, to change things, see the possible in the impossible and make a mark on history. To birth from nothing, something. All of us want to be Frankenstein, in a way...just with a better ending.
I guess here is where we have to say that with greater power comes greater responsibility--or some kind of old adage like that.
A bio-engineer referencing Frankenstein. I wonder at what sort of projects you're working on.
But I agree. What does Frankenstein teach us if not to take responsibility for our creations? To follow through with our visions rather than abandon them to the weakness that is fear? Instead of abandoning our children, to embrace our legacy.
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Socially, I mean. Biologically, yes. Politically, hell no.
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You?
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Nuclear physicist and biochem? That sounds like a lethal combination.
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Looks into the camera like he's on the office. ]It can be, unless you're careful.
But within science is sheer awe, and none can quite surpass the rush of power one gets when you manage to achieve greater understanding, and through greater understanding can manipulate forces beyond the average man to your will.
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Isn't that always the lure of science? The desire to achieve, to understand, and to do the things others can only imagine? The chance to pioneer, even at the cost of your life. To challenge, to change things, see the possible in the impossible and make a mark on history. To birth from nothing, something. All of us want to be Frankenstein, in a way...just with a better ending.
I guess here is where we have to say that with greater power comes greater responsibility--or some kind of old adage like that.
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But I agree. What does Frankenstein teach us if not to take responsibility for our creations? To follow through with our visions rather than abandon them to the weakness that is fear? Instead of abandoning our children, to embrace our legacy.