Dr. Martin Stein quotes from Legends of Tomorrow

Stein

What's the point of stopping Savage if we become as immoral as he is in the process?

Leonard Snart

You got the wrong guy, hero ain't on my resume.

Mick Rory

Or mine.

Rip Hunter

I know it's difficult for you to fathom, but where - when I'm from, the year 2166, you and everyone on this roof aren't just considered heroes... You're legends.

Ray Palmer

Legends?

Dr. Martin Stein

I, um, I hate to nitpick, but doesn't a legend have to be dead?

Yeah, see, uh, that's deal breaker for me, so I'm gonna pass.

Mick

Whatever you roofied him with, I'd like some.

Stein

I did not roofie him.

Mick

Oh, I ain't judgin'.

Stein

Why the change of heart?

Jax

You ever play football? Yeah, I didn't think so... Anyway, the best feeling I ever got from being on the field wasn't when I made a great play or we won some game. It was when one of my team-mates took a tackle for me, and I knew they were gonna make sure I was safe. And nobody got to me. Watching all of you rush back to the ship, even those two knuckle-heads, to take on Chronos, made me feel the same way. I like being part of a team, man.

Stein

Me too.

Jax

People actually wore this crap?

Stein

People smoked a lot of pot in the '70s. It clearly had a deleterious effect on the fashion of the era.

Sara Lance

I cannot believe that that is you.

Jax

Seriously, I had no idea you were ever cool.

Stein

I wasn't cool. I was an arrogant little snot.

Jax

Was?

Stein

We wouldn't want my former self tempted by a sexy assassin from the future.

Sara

Aww, you think I'm se—

Stein

Do not finish that sentence.

Ray

All right, where am I headed?

Stein

You're exiting the tracheal artery. You should see the first fragment.

Ray

No sign of it. Did I miss it?

Stein

It's the size of an iceberg. It seems highly unlikely that you could miss it.

Ray

Huh. That's probably what they said on the Titanic.

Stein

I know how it feels.

Ray

What?

Stein

To have a crisis of confidence. As unlikely as it might seem, I know. It was 2002. I was teaching quantum mechanics, and I had one particularly gifted student. He was able to solve the Ehrenfest theorem in less than an hour. He was, quite frankly, the only student in all my years of teaching who ever made me feel inferior. That student was you. You were exceptional.

Ray

And suddenly, just like that, you remember having me in your class.

Stein

I always remembered. I just enjoyed taking you down a peg or two.

Stein

Having merged with an insane Russian scientist, I now know how lucky I am to have you as my partner.

Jax

[raises a shot glass in a toast] Partners.

Stein

I'm having the strangest sensation. It's like I'm ten years old again.

Mick

You do a lot of space travel as a kid, Professor?

Stein

Only in my dreams, after I read my first issue of "Rick Starr: Space Ranger."

Jax

Space Ranger Stein? Yeah, I don't see it.

Stein

I wanted to travel through space, surviving only by my wits and laser guns. I even built a rocket out of cardboard boxes.

Rip

What stopped you?

Stein

NASA has rather strict guidelines regarding near-sightedness.

Jax

And smoking weed.

Stein

Seeing white picket fences and perfect family houses, it's enough to make one nostalgic.

Sara

Or nauseated.

Stein

Oh come on, Miss Lance, even someone as jaded as yourself can't deny how idyllic this time was.

Jax

Yeah. If you're white.

Sara

And a man. And straight. And...

Stein

Ok, ok, I get the point.

Stein

Excellent, nurse. I could also go for a cup of coffee.

Sara

Me, too. Black, two sugars.

Stein

While I've been busy working, you've been busy seducing that young woman!

Sara

Actually, I was liberating her. With an option to seduce her later.

Jax

But if we're going to be checking out the future...

Sara

We should probably invite the nerd twins.

Jax

You know, I can already hear what Stein's going to say about 2147:

Stein

[amazed at what he sees] The future, it's...

Sara

[simultaneously with Jax] Astonishing.

Jax

[simultaneously with Sara] Fascinating.

Jax

[to Sara] Well, it was a 50-50 chance which one he'd choose.