Unknown World

Dr. Jeremiah Morley:
I believe that humanity can escape annihilation, can find a temporary haven, a promise of hope that, come what may, life can be sustained deep within the Earth itself. Far below the Earth we shall seek a natural, a geologic shelter. We have a team ready for the effort. All we lack are funds.

Dr. Jeremiah Morley:
The world's changed since yesterday.

Andy Ostergaard:
[Reflecting on the expedition's status deep beneath the Earth] You know once when I was working on the Holland Tunnel, I got cut off from my crew for ten hours. I felt this way then.

Dr. James Paxton:
Nature doesn't influence Man! Man influences Nature! One man, one strong man can change Nature!

Wright Thompson:
Oh, you're wrong, Dr. Paxton. It isn't one man, it's many men working together.

[Looking at Dr. Joan Lindsey]

Wright Thompson:
Right, teacher?

Dr. James Paxton:
Men together are no more than sheep! One man standing alone leads the way, and the sheep follow!

Wright Thompson:
What kind of place is this? Flowers that crumble to dust in your hand, stones that look like pearls, fish without eyes! Nature's sure a practical joker!

Dr. Jeremiah Morley:
I suppose you could've done better?

Wright Thompson:
In 10 million years I couldn'ta done worse!

Dr. Jeremiah Morley:
Go back to what? To a world bent on self destruction? We can live the rest of our lives here in peace.

Dr. Joan Lindsey:
Morley, you're wrong! This isn't peace! This is a resting place for the living dead! I don't believe it's the end of the world! I don't believe it's the end of mankind!

Dr. Jeremiah Morley:
You're young! You don't know! I've lived through the terrors of two great wars! I've had enough!

Wright Thompson:
You don't like my kind of guy, do you?

Dr. Joan Lindsey:
Not very much, but I'll make an exception in your case-you, I don't like a lot.

Dr. Joan Lindsey:
Mean well? Next you'll be calling us starry-eyed idealists!

Wright Thompson:
[referring to the scientists] Don't they ever talk?

Andy Ostergaard:
Not unless they got something to say. That's the way it is with smart people,

Wright Thompson:
Maybe they're not so smart. Maybe they don't know what they're doin' down here.

Andy Ostergaard:
Listen, buster. Each one of them has taught at more colleges than you flunked out of.

Wright Thompson:
So what are you doing down here among all those brains?

Andy Ostergaard:
I manage to make myself useful. It might be well if you did the same thing.