The Thing From Another World
1951
Ned "Scotty" Scott: So few people can boast that they lost a man from Mars and a flying saucer all in the same day! What if Columbus had discovered America, then mislaid it!
Ned "Scotty" Scott: An intellectual carrot. The mind boggles.
Dr Arthur Carrington: There are no enemies in science, only phenomena to be studied.
Dr Arthur Carrington: Knowledge is more important than life.
Dr Arthur Carrington: (about the carrot) Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors.
(last lines) Ned "Scotty" Scott: Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!
Ned "Scotty" Scott: Please doctor, I've got to ask this. It sounds like, well, just as though you're describing some form of super carrot.
Lt Ken McPherson: I wonder if this thing can read minds. Eddie: Well, if it can, it's gonna be real mad when it gets to me.
(referring to McPherson's gun) Ned "Scotty" Scott: You sure you know how to use that thing? Lt Ken McPherson: I saw Gary Cooper in "Sergeant York."
Ned "Scotty" Scott: Think of what it means to the world! Hendry: I'm not working for the world. I'm working for the Air Force.
Ned "Scotty" Scott: Dr Carrington, you're a man who won the Nobel Prize. You've received every kind of international kudos a scientist can attain. If you were for sale I could get a million bucks for you from any foreign government. I'm not, therefore, gonna stick my neck out and say you're stuffed absolutely clean full of wild blueberry muffins, but I promise my readers are gonna think so.
Dr Chapman: Find anything, Captain? Hendry: Not a sign. We poked into every snowbank within miles. Bob, Crew Chief: Barnes flushed a polar bear. Cpl. Barnes: Sure did. Dr Chapman: Scare you? Cpl. Barnes: Not after I saw it was only a bear.
Nikki: Say that again! (She observes cold breath coming out of Scotty's mouth) Ned "Scotty" Scott: Oh Nikki, not you, too! Nikki: No, silly, your breath! Ned "Scotty" Scott: Well, I'm sorry, but I've been under a great deal of strain lately! Nikki: Oh, you ninny, look!
Dr Arthur Carrington: We owe it to the brain of our species to stand here and die... without destroying a source of wisdom.
(after a quick encounter with the Thing) Hendry: Did you get your picture? Ned "Scotty" Scott: No, you were in the way and the door wasn't open long enough. Hendry: You want us to open it again? Ned "Scotty" Scott: NO!
Ned "Scotty" Scott: Here's the sixty-four dollar question - what do you do with a vegetable? Nikki: Boil it. Ned "Scotty" Scott: What did you say? Nikki: Boil it... bake it... stew it... fry it?