Stephen Fry credited as playing...
James Moreland
- Boris Podolsky: James! How's the rat business?
- James Moreland: Well, actually it's mostly students I'm experimenting on now.
- Kurt Godel: My God, the mazes must be enormous.
- Ed Walters: You see, you have a Lucas type four generator on a 12-volt system, and you know the British. They'd rather spend time gluing wood on a dashboard than getting the electrical system right.
- James Moreland: Fascinating, but what is wrong with the car?
- Ed Walters: [while looking at Catherine Boyd] Well, my guess is your stroke is too short and you're getting premature ignition. Does it ever feel that way?
- James Moreland: [referring to Ed] I was wrong about him. He is not an idiot-savant at all. He is the real thing. He is an idiot-idiot!
- James Moreland: [referring to Ed] I mean, it's not as if he has never shown signs of *normal* intelligence.
- Catherine Boyd: Think of that! Nuclear fusion.
- James Moreland: I suppose these things happen. Idiot-savant, you know. A mental patient plays perfect chess. A nine year old from Alabama suddenly starts speaking in iambic pentameter...
- James Moreland: Now, the mouse has learned that the red lever will give him an electrical stimulus in the brain that's something akin to sexual climax; and the blue lever will dispense him food. Now, this one here hasn't eaten for three days...
- James Moreland: [the mouse goes to the red lever, triggering the light] Now, why would he do that?
- [Albert Einstein, dumbfounded, doesn't say anything but looks at James with a look that doesn't really need an explanation]