Armageddon (1998)

Jason Isaacs: Ronald Quincy

Quotes 

• Ronald Quincy : I know the president's chief scientific advisor, we were at MIT together. And, in a situation like this, you-you really don't wanna take the advice from a man who got a C- in astrophysics. The president's advisors are, um... wrong... and I'm right.

• Ronald Quincy : [holds out his hand]  Imagine a firecracker in the palm of your hand. You set it off, what happens? You burn your hand, right? You close your fist around the same firecracker,

  [clenches his hand into a fist] 

  Ronald Quincy : and set it off. Your wife's gonna be opening your ketchup bottles the rest of your life.

• Dan : With the proximity of the asteroid, and no prep time, none of our primary plans can work.

  General Kimsey : Why don't we just send up a hundred and fifty nuclear warheads and blast that rock apart?

  Ronald Quincy : Terrible idea.

  General Kimsey : Was I talkin' to you?

  Dan : This is Dr. Ronald Quincy from Research. Pretty much the smartest man on the planet You might wanna listen to him.