"Death is a kind of forgetting. You see, each time a human cell replicates, it loses a little more DNA from the end of its chromosomes. Now, eventually what happens is, it forgets so much that it forgets its function, its ability to cope with trauma, to continue to reproduce. Okay? Whereas life; life has the ability to both retrieve and to act on memory. What makes the nanomeds so extraordinary and continuing our funding worthy, of course is the fact they are life... unbound. It's beautiful, but it's untenable. Part of life is death, is forgetting and unchecked, it's mutatious, it's monstrous. See, the nanomeds remember their instructions too well. Basically, to stay in balance and alive, we must forget as much as we remember."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Bruce Banner (Eric Bana), deleted scene of Hulk (2003).
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Forgetting
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Forgetting
34 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Forgetting →
Related Quotes
"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."
"FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience."
"But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on h…"
"That frivolous young widow ought to have paid for the solace she declared so often she found in books. "I must read t…"
"May your way of life not be forgotten, may your name be called on."
"The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders."
"I’m the best there is at what I do. At least the people still living after I’m done undoing would say that. Everyone …"
"I appreciate everyone reaching out & checking on me. I suffered a pretty nasty concussion against the Bears a few wee…"
"ἔνθ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἄλλ᾽ ἐνόησ᾽ Ἑλένη Διὸς ἐκγεγαυῖα: αὐτίκ᾽ ἄρ᾽ εἰς οἶνον βάλε φάρμακον, ἔνθεν ἔπινον, νηπενθές τ᾽ ἄχολόν τε, …"
"[M]y memory rests, but never forgets what I lost."