Ian Malcolm
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Ian Malcolm is a fictional mathematician appearing in Michael Crichton's books Jurassic Park and The Lost World, and their respective movie adaptations. Malcolm specializes in the field of chaos theory.
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Jurassic Park (film)
- Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
- So you two dig up dinosaurs?
- Chaotician, actually! Chaotician!
- John doesn't subscribe to chaos, particularly what it has to say about his little science project!
- Dr. Grant, Dr. Sattler — you've heard of chaos theory?
- How do you know they can't breed?
- But again, how do you know they're all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh… lift up the dinosaurs' skirts?
- John, the kind of control you're attempting is not possible. If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories. It crashes through barriers. Painfully, maybe even… dangerously, but, and… well, there it is.
- All major changes are like death. You can't see what is on the other side until you get there.
- Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear.
- Global uniformity. Oh, that hurts.
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