The Mutations (1974)

Donald Pleasence: Dr. Nolter

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• Dr. Nolter : We don't know yet how these mutations happen. But, we do know that mutations can be induced. So, that instead of endless accidental changes, we may be able to create the mutations of our choice and change our species or improve it.

• Dr. Nolter : We are interested in cloning, not in clowning.

• Dr. Nolter : You may think you are normal. But, you are all a product of mutations. Your ancestors, our ancestors, were freaks.

• Dr. Nolter : Within 10 years, it is safe to say, we shall be able to recreate, through time-frozen amino acid strains, a living dinosaur - to walk the earth just as it did 10 million years ago.

• Dr. Nolter : If you only understood what this means. What you represent. You and I together, we could accomplish the miracle.

• Dr. Nolter : Nobody believes such things are possible. In her vital cells lies the mystery of all life - and the solution to that mystery.

• Dr. Nolter : I assure you, there is nothing of fantasy in this.

• Dr. Nolter : I have spent my life trying to achieve the synthesis of two life forms, Mr. Redford: The creation of a new race of man with all the miraculous properties of the plant.

• Dr. Nolter : We are on the verge of being able to accelerate the process of self-evolution.

  Brian : How?

  Dr. Nolter : By - inducing such mutations - what some people would refer to as - the freak type.