The X-Files (TV Series)

Quagmire (1996)

Timothy Webber: Dr. Paul Farraday

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• Dr. Paul Farraday : You can't turn your back on nature, or nature will turn her back on you!

• Dr. Paul Farraday : See, whenever an issue requires any real thought, any serious mental effort, people turn to UFOs and sea serpents and Sasquatch. Afternoon talk shows and tabloid TV - they've reduced our attention span to the length of a sound bite so that soon our ability to think will be as extinct as the Rana sphenocephala frog.

• Dr. Paul Farraday : The deflection, sleight of hand. See, whenever an issue requires any real thought, any serious mental effort, people turn to UFOs, and sea serpents and Sasquatch. Afternoon talk shows and tabloid TV. They've reduced our attention span to the length of a sound bite. So that soon our ability to think will be as extinct as a Rana sphenocephala frog.

• Fox Mulder : Dr. Farraday, you know the wildlife in and around this lake just about as well as anybody, don't you?

  Dr. Paul Farraday : I'd say that's accurate.

  Fox Mulder : Are you aware of any indigenous species that's capable of attacking a human being?

  Dr. Paul Farraday : Yes, another human being.