Longitude2000

Lieutenant John Campbell:
I thought only of one thing: a piece of twisted brass spinning. There, look. Look at its little heart still beating. I thought to myself, this'll never happen again. There'll be a machine to tell us where we are. I swore that if I lived, I'd come and find you.

John Harrison:
John, when they were dying, who did your men curse for their misfortune?

Lieutenant John Campbell:
Their God, or their admiral; when you're a foot, there's little difference.

John Harrison:
And if they'd a clock, and the clock didn't work, and the men still died... who would they curse then? When you're young, you think everything's possible. But as you grow older, you discover that it isn't.

Lieutenant John Campbell:
Well then, don't grow older, Mr. Harrison.