“- Thomas A. Edison: We failed again. That's the net result of nine thousand experiments.
- Michael Simon: We know the work you have done. We are as sorry as you are that you didn't get results.”

Spencer Tracy - Thomas A. Edison
Felix Bressart - Michael Simon

“Months of experiments, eleven different formulas, now a scalp transplant and it's still not working.”
Colin Fox - Edmund Delhurst

“Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore - correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings?”
Jeremy Irons - René Gallimard

“Inspector, your methods are unconventional to say the least. Oh, you get results. But often your successes are more costly to this department in terms of expenses and physical destruction than most other men's failures.”

Bill Reddick - Police Commissioner

“Perhaps you will regard my work with ridicule or even with a distaste. If so, destroy these records. But if you like me burn with the irresistable desire to penetrate the unknown, carry on.”

Basil Rathbone - Baron Wolf von Frankenstein