Moonbase 3 (TV Series)

View of a Dead Planet (1973)

Michael Gough: Sir Benjamin Dyce

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Quotes 

• Sir Benjamin Dyce : [gesturing to Moonbase window]  Look out there, all of you. What do you see?

  Michel Lebrun : The Earth.

  Sir Benjamin Dyce : And can you see your beloved France?

  Michel Lebrun : Yes, not clearly...

  Sir Benjamin Dyce : And can you see where France stops and Germany, Switzerland or anywhere else starts?

  Michel Lebrun : Not with the naked eye...

  Sir Benjamin Dyce : You cannot see that if the soil is as close to your face as this meaningless bit of cloth!

  [throws mini-French flag to the floor] 

  Sir Benjamin Dyce : It is only on maps that the colour of one country is different from the colour of the next.

  Michel Lebrun : There is nothing wrong with a man being proud of his own country.

  Sir Benjamin Dyce : There is everything wrong with it!

• Dr. David Caulder : You were wrong, weren't you? Eh? Thank God, you were wrong!

  Sir Benjamin Dyce : Yes, I was wrong. Any man can make a mistake. But mankind, now mankind cannot be allowed one single mistake.

• Sir Benjamin Dyce : I've always held that the last words of mankind will not be the secret name of God but, "What is this knob for?"

• Sir Benjamin Dyce : [On being introduced to Helen Smith]  I've always doubted if women have any useful place in science.

  Dr. Helen Smith : I don't think Pierre Curie would've agreed with you.

  Sir Benjamin Dyce : The man was a fool! Any man who is so careless to the material he is researching as to die from it!

• Sir Benjamin Dyce : You are intellectual incontinents! Ideas dribble from you without either volition or control!