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Looking for hot tips on artificial intelligence? Spoiler alert: things didn't go super well for Dr. Frankenstein. Click on any science quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"Abby... normal."Source: Young Frankenstein | Speaker: Igor

"Allons-y!"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor

"Be curious."Source: Birthday Party Speech | Speaker: Stephen Hawking

"Beam me up, Scotty."Source: Star Trek | Speaker: Captain Kirk

"Billions and billions."Source: Carl Sagan | Speaker: Carl Sagan


"But it does move."Source: Unknown | Speaker: Galileo Galilei


"Danger, Will Robinson!"Source: Lost in Space | Speaker: The Robot

"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000


"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."Source: Not verified | Speaker: Thomas Edison

"God doesn't play dice with the world."Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man | Speaker: Albert Einstein


"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV."Source: Vicks Formula 44 | Speaker: Chris Robinson

"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."Source: The Origin of the Species | Speaker: Charles Darwin

"Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"Source: Adventures of Superman | Speaker: Men and Women

"Make it so."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: Captain Jean-Luc Picard

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about…"Source: Mysticism and Logic | Author: Bertrand Russell


"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought"Source: Frankenstein | Author: Mary Shelley


"Resistance is futile."Source: Star Trek: The Next Generation | Speaker: The Borg

"Shall we play a game?"Source: WarGames | Speaker: WOPR/Joshua

"Starve a cold, feed a fever."Source: Medieval Reference Manual | Author: John Withals

"That the sun will not rise tomorrow implies no more contradiction than that it will rise."Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | Author: David Hume


"The truth is...I am Iron Man."Source: Iron Man | Speaker: Tony Stark

"This is a man's world. But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."Source: It's a Man's Man's Man's World | Speaker: James Brown


"You want weapons. We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world."Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor