- Amelia Wren: You don't change the world simply by looking at it, you change it through the way you choose to live in it.
- James Glaisher: Newton said that we build too many walls...
- Amelia Wren: I don't want to hear it from Newton. I want to hear from you.
- James Glaisher: All my life I've found comfort in science. It helps give meaning to the many things we can't control. It brings a degree of order to the chaos that surrounds us. But whilst we may be able to explain the science behind an aureole, or falling snow, it's not possible to account for its beauty. Together we've brought the stars closer.
- Amelia Wren: We HAVE brought the stars closer.
- Amelia Wren: So, you didn't have room for oils, but you did for brandy?
- James Glaisher: Well, a scientist is nothing without his equipment.
- [the sound of distant thunder rumbles]
- Amelia Wren: Are we still sure this weather will hold... because my instinct is telling me
- James Glaisher: [interrupting] Your instinct has no place in weather prediction.
- Amelia Wren: You're lying to me.
- James Glaisher: Every reading that I took this morning was quite clear, Miss Wren.
- Amelia Wren: There are no advantages to concealing concerns for we are trapped here no matter what you say.
- Arthur Glaisher: Th-These things that people are saying about you, James, don't-don't... don't they hurt?
- James Glaisher: I wish it didn't hurt you.
- Amelia Wren: But you don't change the world simply by looking at it - you change it through the way you choose to live in it.