How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Frankenstein.
Quote #4
FRANKENSTEIN: Look! It's moving. It's alive. It's alive... It's alive, it's moving, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive!
VICTOR: Henry—in the name of God!
FRANKENSTEIN: Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!
This dialogue actually got censored in some versions of the film, because it was considered blasphemous. Of course, the point here is that Frankenstein is insane and impious in defying God.
But you can see the film censors point; after all, the guy did create life. The movie both scolds Frankenstein (like Victor) and presents him as having near divine power. Science is bad because it gives you too much power—but then, who wouldn't grab at too much power?
Quote #5
FRANKENSTEIN: Dangerous? Poor old Waldman. Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light?
This doesn't sound like scary science, does it? Maybe Frankenstein should have tried one of these projects. Spend your life figuring out why trees bud or building a better telescope; that should work fine. But no, instead you had to start with the research project that involved cutting up corpses and making monsters. Everything would have been okay if you'd just reorganized your research priorities, Frankenstein.