:09:02
..that any more than common injury
:09:05
to the nerve root is always serious.
:09:08
Because once a nerve fibre is severed,
:09:11
there is no way, in heaven or on earth,
:09:15
to regenerate life back into it.
:09:18
Are there any last questions before we leave?
:09:21
Dr Frank...
:09:23
- Fronkonsteen...
- Yes?
:09:26
Isn't it true that Darwin preserved
a piece of vermicelli in a glass case
:09:30
until, by some extraordinary means,
:09:32
it actually began to move
with a voluntary motion?
:09:36
Are you speaking of the worm
or the spaghetti?
:09:41
Why, the worm, sir.
:09:43
Yes. It seems to me I did read something
of that incident when I was a student.
:09:48
But you have to remember that a worm,
with very few exceptions,
:09:51
is not a human being.
:09:55
But wasn't that the basis
of your grandfather's work, sir?
:09:58
The reanimation of dead tissue?
:10:00
My grandfather was a very sick man.
:10:04
But as a Fronkonsteen,
aren't you the least bit curious about it?
:10:08
Doesn't bringing back to life what was
once dead hold any intrigue for you?
:10:12
You are talking about the nonsensical ravings
of a lunatic mind. Dead is dead.
:10:19
But look at what has been done
with hearts and kidneys.
:10:22
Hearts and kidneys are Tinker toys.
I'm talking about the central nervous system.
:10:27
- But, sir...
- I am a scientist, not a philosopher!
:10:30
You have more chance
of reanimating this scalpel
:10:33
than of mending a broken nervous system.
:10:35
- But what about your grandfather's work?
- My grandfather's work was doo-doo!
:10:42
I am not interested in death.
:10:44
The only thing that concerns me
is the preservation of life!
:10:55
Class...
:10:57
..is...
:10:59
..dismissed.