Memorable Quotes from Doc Brown
Doc Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
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Doc Brown: What on Earth's this thing I'm wearing?
Marty McFly: Ah, this, this is a radiation suit.
Doc Brown: Radiation suit? Of course, because of all the fallout from the atomic wars.
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Doc Brown: If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit.
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Doc Brown: Then tell me, "Future Boy", who's President in the United States in 1985?
Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
Doc Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?
Doc Brown: Then who's VICE-President? Jerry Lewis?
Doc Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
Marty McFly: Whoa! Wait! Doc!
Doc Brown: And Jack Benny, the Secretary of the Treasury.
Marty McFly: Doc, You gotta listen to me.
Doc Brown: I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, Future Boy!
[closes the door leaving Marty outside]
Marty McFly: No, wait! Doc. The... the... the bruise... the bruise on your head. I know how that happened! You told me the whole story. You were standing on your toilet, and you were hanging a clock, and you fell, and you hit your head on the sink. And that's when you came up with the idea for the Flux Capacitor...
Marty McFly: which... is what makes time travel possible.
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Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?
Doc Brown: Precisely.
Marty McFly: Whoa, this is heavy.
Doc Brown: There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?
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Marty McFly: This is uh... This is heavy duty, Doc. This is great. Uh... does it run, like... on regular unleaded gasoline?
Doc Brown: Unfortunately no, it requires something with a little more kick - plutonium.
Marty McFly: Uh... plutonium? Wait.
Marty McFly: Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?
Doc Brown: Hey, hey, hey. Keep rolling. Keep rolling, there.
Doc Brown: No, no, no. This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.
Marty McFly: Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium. Did you rip that off?
Doc Brown: Shhhhhh. Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shoddy bomb-casing full of used pinball machine parts! Come on! Let's get you a radiation suit. We must prepare to reload.
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Doc Brown: Don't worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88mph the instant the lightning strikes the tower... everything will be fine.
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Doc Brown: Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
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Doc Brown: This is it! This is the answer. It says here... that a bolt of lightning is going to strike the clock tower at precisely 10:04pm, next Saturday night! If we can somehow... harness this lightning... channel it... into the flux capacitor... it just might work. Next Saturday night, we're sending you back to the future!
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Doc Brown: I'm sure in 1985 plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.
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Doc Brown: Now, remember - according to my theory, you interfered with your parents first meeting. If they don't meet, they won't fall in love, they won't get married and they won't have kids. That's why your older brother's disappearing from that photograph. Your sister will follow, and unless you repair the damage, you'll be next.
Marty McFly: Sounds pretty heavy.
Doc Brown: Weight has nothing to do with it.
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Doc Brown: Are those my clocks I hear?
Marty McFly: Yeah! Uh, it's 8 o'clock!
Doc Brown: Perfect! My experiment worked! They're all exactly 25 minutes slow.
Marty McFly: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Doc... Are you telling me that it's 8:25?
Doc Brown: Precisely.
Marty McFly: Damn! I'm late for school!
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Marty McFly: You know, Doc, you left your equipment on all week.
Doc Brown: My equipment. That reminds me, Marty. You better not hook up to the amplifier. There's a slight possibility of overload.
Marty McFly: Yeah, I'll keep that in mind.
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Doc Brown: Oh, my God, they found me, I don't know how, but they found me. Run for it Marty.
Marty McFly: Who? Who?
Doc Brown: Who do you think? The Libyans.
Marty McFly: Holy shit!
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Doc Brown: Ah! What did I tell you?
Doc Brown: 88 miles per hour!
Doc Brown: The temporal displacement occurred at exactly 1:20am and zero seconds!
Marty McFly: Ah, Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ, Doc, you just disintegrated Einstein!
Doc Brown: Calm down, Marty, I didn't disintegrate anything. The molecular structure of both Einstein and the car are completely intact.
Marty McFly: Then where the hell are they?
Doc Brown: The appropriate question is, "When the hell are they?" You see, Einstein has just become the world's first time-traveler! I sent him into the future. One minute into the future to be exact. And at precisely 1:21am and zero seconds, we shall catch up with him and the time machine.
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Doc Brown: 1.21 jigawatts? 1.21 jigawatts? Great Scott!
Marty McFly: What the hell is a jigawatt?
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Doc Brown: Which one's your pop?
Marty McFly: That's him.
Doc Brown: Maybe you were adopted.
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Doc Brown: Marty, I'm sorry. But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning.
Marty McFly: What did you say?
Doc Brown: A bolt of lighting. Unfortunately, you never know when or where it's ever gonna strike.
Marty McFly: We do now.
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Doc Brown: Look. There's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up.
Marty McFly: Of course! The Enchantment Under the Sea dance! They're supposed to go to this. That's where they kiss for the first time.
Doc Brown: All right, kid. You stick to your father like glue and make sure he takes her to that dance.
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Doc Brown: Have them go on some sort of social...
Marty McFly: You mean like a date?
Doc Brown: Right.
Marty McFly: Well, what kind of date? What do kids do in the '50s?
Doc Brown: Well, they're your parents you must know them. What are their common interests? What do they like to do together?
Marty McFly: Nothing.
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Marty McFly: What about all that talk about screwing up future events, the space-time continuum?
Doc Brown: Well, I figured, what the hell.
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Doc Brown: No wonder your president has to be an actor, he's gotta look good on TV.
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Doc Brown: Let me show you my plan for sending you home. Please excuse the crudity of this model, I didn't have time to build it to scale or to paint it.
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Marty McFly: There he is, Doc! Let's land on him, we'll cripple his car.
Doc Brown: Marty, he's in a '46 Ford, we're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil.
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Marty McFly: "Within two hours of his arrest, Martin McFly Jr. was tried, convicted and sentenced to fifteen years in the state penetentary." Within two hours?
Doc Brown: The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers.
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Doc Brown: The time-traveling is just too dangerous. Better that I devote myself to study the other great mystery of the universe: women!
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Doc Brown: Marty! What in the name of Sir Isaac H. Newton happened here?
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Doc Brown: No! It can't be; I just sent you back to the future!
Marty McFly: No, I know; you did send me back to the future. But I'm back - I'm back from the future.
Doc Brown: Great Scott!
[Doc faints]
Marty McFly: Doc! Doc! Doc! Ohhhh...
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Marty McFly: That's right, Doc. November 12, 1955.
Doc Brown: Unbelievable, that old Biff could have chosen that particular date. It could mean that, that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if it were the junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence.
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Marty McFly: Nice shot Doc! You're not going to believe this, we have to go back to 1955.
Doc Brown: I don't believe it!
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Marty McFly: The 'Sports Almanac'. Son of a bitch stole my idea! He must have been listening when I... It's my fault! The whole thing's my fault. If I hadn't have boughten that damn book, then none of this would have ever happened.
Doc Brown: Well, forget it Marty. That's all in the past.
Marty McFly: You mean the future.
Doc Brown: Whatever! It demonstrates precisely how time travel can be mis-used, and why the time machine must be destroyed, after we straighten all of this out.
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Doc Brown: Oh and Marty, be careful around that Griff character, he's got a few short circuits. In his bionic implants.
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Doc Brown: They're taking her home, to your future home! We'll arrive shortly thereafter, get her out of there and go back to 1985.
Marty McFly: You mean, I'm going to see where I live? I'm gonna see myself as an old man?
Doc Brown: No, no, no Marty, that could result in a... Great scott! Jennifer could conceivably encounter her future self! The consequences of that could be disastrous!
Marty McFly: Doc, what do you mean?
Doc Brown: I foresee two possibilities. One, coming face to face with herself 30 years older would put her into shock and she would simply pass out. Or two, the encounter could create a time paradox, the results of which could start a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space time continuum, and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that's a worse case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localized, limited to our own galaxy.
Marty McFly: Well, that's a relief.
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Doc Brown: Time circuits on.
Marty McFly: Time circuits on? What do you mean "Time Curcuits on"? Doc, we're not going back now!
Doc Brown: Yep.
Marty McFly: Doc, What about Jennifer? What about Einstein? We can't just leave them here.
Doc Brown: Don't worry, Marty. Assuming we succeed in our mission, this alternate 1985 will be changed back into the real 1985, instantaneously transforming around Jennifer and Einie. Jennifer and Einie will be fine, and they'll have absolutely no memory of this horrible place.
Marty McFly: Doc... what if we don't succeed?
Doc Brown: We must succeed.
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Doc Brown: Nice talking to you. Maybe we can bump into each other sometime again in the future.
Doc Brown (from Future): Or in the past.
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Doc Brown: Sometime today, old Biff will show up to give young Biff the Almanac. Above all, you must not interfere with that event. We must let Old Biff believe he succeeded, so that he'll leave 1955 and bring the DeLorean back to the future.
Marty McFly: Right.
Doc Brown: Once Old Biff is gone, grab the Almanac anyway that you can. Remember, both of our futures depend on this.
Marty McFly: You don't have to remind me of that, Doc.
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Doc Brown: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
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Doc Brown: I went to a rejuvenation clinic and got a whole natural overhaul. They took out some wrinkles, did hair repair, changed the blood, added a good 30 to 40 years to my life. They also replaced my spleen and colon. What do you think?
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Doc Brown: Marty, you're not thinking fourth dimensionally!
Marty McFly: Yeah, I know, I got a real problem with that.
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Doc Brown: Reach!
Train Conductor: Is this a holdup?
Doc Brown: It's a science experiment!
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Doc Brown: Clara was one in a million. One in a billion. One in a googolplex.
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Doc Brown: Marty, I gave you explicit instructions not to come here but to go directly back to 1985.
Marty McFly: I know, Doc. But I had to come.
Doc Brown: But it's good to see you, Marty.
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Doc Brown: We shall proceed as planned, and as soon as we return to 1985, we shall destroy this infernal machine. Traveling through time has become much too painful.
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Doc Brown: Marty, you can't go losing your judgment every time someone calls you a name. It's exactly what causes you to get into that accident in the future.
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Marty McFly: Hey, Doc! Where you going now? Back to the future?
Doc Brown: Nope. Already been there.
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Doc Brown: No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan".
Marty McFly: What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan.
Doc Brown: Unbelievable.
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Doc Brown: "Shot in the back by Buford Tannen, over a matter of eighty dollars." What kind of future do you call that?
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Marty McFly: Great Scott!
Doc Brown: I know, this is heavy.
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Marty McFly: I'm sorry, Doc. It's all my fault you're stuck back there. I never should have let Biff get to me!
Doc Brown: Well, there are plenty worse places to be than the Old West. I could've ended up in the Dark Ages. They probably would have burned me at the stake as a heretic or something.
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Marty McFly: Clayton Ravine was named after a teacher. They say she fell in there a hundred years ago.
Doc Brown: A hundred years ago? That's this year!
Marty McFly: Every kid in school knows that story 'cause we all have teachers we'd like to see fall into the ravine.
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Marty McFly: Maybe it was a mistake, Doc. Maybe that grave wasn't yours. There could've been another Emmett Brown back in 1885.
Doc Brown: No.
Marty McFly: Didn't you have any relatives here back then?
Doc Brown: The Browns didn't come to Hill Valley until 1908, and then they were the Von Brauns. My father changed our name during the First World War.
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Doc Brown: Marty, you're going to have to do something about those clothes. You walk around town dressed like that, you're liable to get shot.
Marty McFly: Or hanged.
Doc Brown: What idiot dressed you in that outfit?
Marty McFly: You did.
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Doc Brown: And in the future, we don't need horses. We have motorized carriages called automobiles.
Old Guy in Saloon: If everybody's got one of these auto-whatsits, does anybody walk or run anymore?
Doc Brown: Of course we run. But for recreation. For fun.
Old Guy in Saloon: Run for fun? What the hell kind of fun is that?
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Bartender: Emmett! What can I get you? The usual?
Doc Brown: No, Chester, I'm gonna need something a lot stronger than that tonight.
Bartender: Sarsaparilla?
Doc Brown: Whiskey, Chester.
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Doc Brown: Each detonation will be accompanied by a sudden burst of acceleration. Hopefully, we'll hit 88 mph, before the needle gets much past 2000.
Marty McFly: Why, what happens when it hits 2000?
Doc Brown: The whole boiler explodes.
Marty McFly: Perfect!
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Doc Brown: All you got to do is drive directly toward that screen accelerating up to 88 miles an hour.
Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc. It I go driving straight towards that screen, I'm gonna crash into those Indians.
Doc Brown: Marty, you're not thinking fourth dimensionally. You'll soon enough be transferred back into 1885, and those Indians won't even be there.
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Doc Brown: Well, good luck for both our sakes. You've made a real difference in my life. See you in the future.
Marty McFly: You mean the past?
Doc Brown: Exactly.
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Doc Brown: This reminds me of the time I attempted to reach the center of the earth. I'd be reading my favorite author, Jules Verne. I spent weeks preparing for the expedition, I didn't even get this far. Of course, I was only 12 at the time. It was the writings of Jules Verne that had a profound effect on my life. I was 11 when I first read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. That's when I realized that I must devote my life into science.
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Doc Brown: Remember, where you're going, there are no roads.
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Doc Brown: Marty, you have to wear the boots. You can't wear those futuristic things back in 1885. You shouldn't even be wearing them here in 1955.
Marty McFly: Look, Doc, as soon I get there I'll put them on. I promise.
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Doc Brown: The thing I really miss here is Tylenol.
