Episode Quotes

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Isaac Newton: [to Data] "Do not patronize me, sir. I invented physics."
   
Albert Einstein: "The uncertainty principle will not help you now, Stephen. All the quantum fluctuations in the universe will not change the cards in your hand. I call. You are bluffing, and you will lose."
Stephen Hawking: "Wrong again, Albert."
   
Admiral Nechayev: [to Picard] "Your priority is to safeguard the lives of Federation citizens, not to wrestle with your conscience."
   
Picard: [on Geordi's report] "'An artificially created energy conduit'. That could be anything."
   
Crosis: "We do not assimilate inferior biological organisms -- we destroy them."
   
Data: "It... would be unethical to take pleasure in another being's death."
Crosis: "You didn't answer my question. Did it feel good to kill?"
Data: "...Yes."
Crosis: "If it is unethical to take pleasure from another being's death, you must be a very unethical person."
   
Data: "The sons of Soong have joined together -- and together, we will destroy the Federation."

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