Insignificance (1985)

Michael Emil: Professor

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• The Actress : I only said I knew, because you said you knew.

  The Professor : I lied. Knowledge isn't truth. It's just mindless agreement. You agree with me, I agree with someone else - we all have knowledge. We haven't come any closer to the truth. You can never understand anything by agreeing, by making definitions. Only by turning over the possibilities. That's called thinking. If I say I know, I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth.

• The Professor : They will not take responsibility for their world. They want to put it all on the shoulders of a few and I tell you the weight of all those worlds...

• The Actress : But if you've finished it, and so much as you've studied it, you'd know how it all fits... how it all works. In fact, you'd know everything!

  The Professor : Ha, ha. I'm an old man. I wouldn't survive the publicity.