— Hey, where did you find those?
— In the box, under my seat.
— Are they heavy?
— Yeah.
— Then they're expensive. Put them back.
T-Rex doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt. You can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct.
— You're married?
— Occasionally. I'm always on the lookout for a future ex-Mrs. Malcolm.
— What are you and Ellie going to do now, if you don't dig up bones any more?
— I don't know. I guess we'll just have to evolve, too.
— That doesn't look very scary. More like a 6-foot turkey.
— A turkey? Imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period. Here we go. You'd get your first look at this 6-foot turkey as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly bobbing his head. You keep still because you think maybe his visual acuity is based on movement, like T-Rex and he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side. From the other two Raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter. He uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this, a 6-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion. No. He slashes at you here or here... Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So, you know, try to show a little respect.
— Okay. Alan, if you wanted to scare the kid, you could've pulled a gun on him.
— Our scientists have done things which nobody has ever done before.
— But your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
— But it ought to be me, really, going.
— Why?
— I'm a... And you're a...
— Look. Come on, let's go. We can discuss sexism in survival situations when I get back.
— No, we've made living biological attractions so astounding that they'll capture the imagination of the entire planet.
— So, what are you thinking?
— That we're out of a job.
— Don't you mean «extinct»?
— If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. Expands to new territories and it crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but there it is. There it is.
— You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will breed?
— No, I'm simply saying that life finds a way.
— You want to have one of those?
— I don't want that kid, but a breed of the child could be intriguing. I mean, what's so wrong with kids?
— They're noisy, they're messy, they're expensive.
— Cheap, cheap.
— They smell.
— They don't smell!
— Some smell.
— Give me a break!
— Babies smell.