S.J. PerelmanI guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
About This Quote
"I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom." is another iconic quote from the movie Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). In this quote, Dr. Strangelove says that he is at heart a mad scientist who is always thinking of ways to use his knowledge to make people suffer or create new and exciting weapons.
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