Malcolm addresses the lunch table beneath large projected dinosaur silhouettes.

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Ian Malcolm

The lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here staggers me.

— Jurassic Park ‧ 1993

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Malcolm’s objection concerns the attitude behind what is being done. Nature is being approached without enough humility, and the scale of that confidence astonishes him. The warning asks whether having the ability to intervene has been mistaken for understanding everything that intervention might set in motion.

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