Rex Reason Quotes

Dr. William Barton We are changing a sea creature into a land creature.

Dr. Thomas Morgan We only use what nature offered. The lungs were there, we don't make them.

Dr. William Barton You'll see Dr. Morgan.

Dr. Thomas Morgan Just don't move too fast trying to change him.

Dr. William Barton Are you afraid of unknown things?

Dr. Thomas Morgan I'm only afraid of misusing what I do know.

Dr. Cal Meacham I feel like a new toothbrush.

The Monitor It is indeed typical that you Earth people refuse to believe in the superiority of any world but your own. Children looking into a magnifying glass, imagining the image you see is the image of your true size.

Dr. Cal Meacham Our true size is the size of our God!

Dr. Cal Meacham Sun lamp?

Dr. Ruth Adams That's what it looks like. Only instead of a suntan, you get your brain cells rearranged.

The Monitor Then you know that shortly we can expect Zagon to commence and sustain an all-out attack. Our ionization layer must be maintained until our relocation is effected.

Dr. Cal Meacham Relocation? To where?

The Monitor To your Earth.

Exeter A peaceful relocation. We hope to live in harmony with the citizens of your Earth.

Dr. Ruth Adams In harmony!

The Monitor Our knowledge and weapons would make us your superiors, naturally.

Dr. Cal Meacham Then why haven't your "superior" brains solved the problem of synthesizing uranium?

Exeter Yes, they're concentrating all their attention on Metaluna. Those flashes of light... they're meteors... hundreds of them! Intense heat is turning Metaluna into a radioactive sun. Temperature must be... thousands of degrees by now. A lifeless planet. And yet... yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope. Yes, a sun. Warming the surface of some other world. Giving light to those who may need it. Now, into the converter tubes! Ruth, you take the first tube. You the next.

Dr. Cal Meacham What about you?

Exeter I'll use the third tube.

Joe Wilson Cal, I - I know everybody's seeing flying saucers and screwy lights up in the sky. Well, you can put me in the booby hatch too, because, so help me, I saw this ship turn a bright green up there.

Dr. Cal Meacham Are you sure, Joe?

Joe Wilson Positive.

Dr. Cal Meacham Did you hear anything?

Joe Wilson Yes. A high-frequency howl, very high, all the time your ship was...

Dr. Cal Meacham Green. Did Webb see it?

Joe Wilson Unless he's blind.

Dr. Cal Meacham Check him.

Joe Wilson Right.

Dr. Cal Meacham Oh, and Joe... until we find out what happened, all three of us were blind.

Dr. Cal Meacham You boys like to call this the pushbutton age. It isn't, not yet. Not until we can team up atomic energy with electronics. Then we'll have the horses as well as the cart.

Dr. Cal Meacham This isn't paper, it's some kind of metal! "Interociter incorporating planetary generator. Interocitor with voltarator. With astroscope".

Joe Wilson Here's something my wife could use in the house. An "interocitor incorporating an electron sorter.

Dr. Cal Meacham Oh, she'd probably gain 20 pounds while it did all the work for her. You know, Joe, according to this, there's no limit to what it can do. Laying a 4-lane highway at the rate of a mile a minute would be a cinch.

Joe Wilson Cal... maybe we've been working too hard.

Dr. Cal Meacham Complete line of interocitor parts, incorporating greater advances than hitherto known in the field of electronics." What exactly is an interocitor?

Joe Wilson I don't know, and I don't want to know.

Dr. Cal Meacham Well, I do. I want to know what it is and what it does. Order the list of parts on these pages.

Dr. Thomas Morgan ...because we all stand between the jungle and the stars, at a crossroads. I think we better decide what brings out the best in humankind, and what brings out the worst, because it's the stars or the jungle.