“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

“- The Great Edgar: For my next experiment, I will saw the little maharaja in half.
- Charlie: I'm a victim of sawcumstances.”
Edgar Bergen - The Great Edgar
Charlie McCarthy - Charlie

“- 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

“- Mr. Taggart: We've no guarantee that these theories of yours are workable.
- Thomas A. Edison: Well, most electricity is theory yet.”
Gene Lockhart - Mr. Taggart
Spencer Tracy - Thomas A. Edison

“- Maya Dolittle: Sometimes I don't think he likes me very much.
- Archer Dolittle: Honey, he loves you.
- Maya Dolittle: I know he loves me, but I don't think he likes me and I want him to. I'm gonna try to do things his way, grandpa, and stop doing these stupid experiments.”
Kyla Pratt - Maya Dolittle
Ossie Davis - Archer Dolittle