Dr Steinman

“ Ryan and ADAM, ADAM, and Ryan... all those years of study and, was I ever truly a surgeon before I met them? How we, plinked away with our scalpels and, toy morality. Yes, we could lop a boil here, and shave down a beak there, but... but could we really change anything? No. But ADAM gives us the means to do it. And Ryan frees us from the phony ethics that held us back. Change your look, change your sex, change your race. It's yours to change, nobody else's! „ ~ Steinman talks about the potential ADAM has. “ ABOVE ALL DO NO HARM. „ ~ One of Steinman's blood-written messages. “ ADAM presents new problems for the professional. As your tools improve, so do your standards. There was a time, I was happy enough to take off a wart or two, or turn a real circus freak into something you can show in the daylight. But, that was then, when we took what we got, but with ADAM... the flesh becomes clay. What excuse do we have not to sculpt, and sculpt, and sculpt, until the job is done? „ ~ Steinman's surgical standards begin to rise. “ ADAM denies us any excuse for not being beautiful. „ ~ Another one of Steinman's blood-written messages. “ I am beautiful, yes. Look at me. What could I do to make my features finer? With ADAM and my scalpel, I have been transformed. But is there not something better? What if now it is not my skill that fails me... but my imagination? „ ~ Steinman thinking about taking a more artistic approach to his work. “ When Picasso became bored of painting people, he started representing them as cubes and other abstract forms. The world called him a genius! I've spent my entire surgical career creating the same tired shapes, over and over again: the upturned nose, the cleft chin, the ample bosom! Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could do with a knife, what that old Spaniard did with a brush? „ ~ Steinman's more "artistic" ideals towards surgery. “ With genetic modifications, beauty is no longer a goal or even a virtue, it is a moral obligation. Do we force the healthy to live with the contagious? Do we mix the criminal with the law-abiding? Then WHY are the plain allowed to mingle with the fair?! „ ~ Steinman's public message on one of the TV screens. “ Why do we have two eyes? Is there some law that says we must? Two arms, two legs, two ears, two breasts... „ ~ Steinman mumbles to himself. “ Today I had lunch with the Goddess. "Steinman," she said... "I'm here to free you from the tyranny of the commonplace. I'm here to show you a new kind of beauty." I asked her, "What do you mean, Goddess?" "Symmetry, dear Steinman. It's time we did something about symmetry..." „ ~ Steinman talks about one of his hallucinations of Aphrodite. “ No Goddess! He'll ruin everything! Get him! Have your harpies TEAR HIM TO BITS! „ ~ Steinman sends Security Bots after Jack. “ Aphrodite is walking the halls - shimmering, like a scalpel. "Steinman," she calls, "Steinman! I have what you're looking for! Just open your eyes!" And when I see her, she cuts me into a thousand beautiful pieces! „ ~ Steinman's sanity takes its toll. “ Look at you! HIDEOUS! „ ~ Steinman engages in combat with Jack. “ LOOK IN A MIRROR! LOOK IN A MIRROR! „ ~ Steinman if Jack flees from him. “ Oh sweet Aphrodite! Why do they always run?! „ ~ Steinman questions "Aphrodite" if Jack flees from him. “ Steinman: Four-oh silk, and done... Nurse: The nose looks terrific, Doctor Steinman... Doctor? Steinman: You know, looking at it now... I didn't realize how much her face sags!... Scalpel. Nurse: Excuse me? Steinman: Scalpel! Nurse: Uh, doctor, sh—she's not booked for a face lift- Steinman: Let's just come in here and... [whistles] Nurse: Doctor, stop cutting. Doctor, stop cutting! Get me the chief of surgery! Get me the chief of surgery now! „ ~ A recording of Steinman cutting up one of his patients. “ Not only are those little girls veritable ADAM factories, they're nearly indestructible. They regenerate any wounded flesh with stem versions of the dead cells. But their relationship with the implanted slugs is symbiotic. If you harvest the slug, the host will die. "So you see, it's not like killing," Tenenbaum said. "It's more like removing a terminal patient from life support." „ ~ Steinman voicing his fascination towards the Little Sisters and their abilities.