Quatermass II (1955)

Hugh Griffith: Dr. Leo Pugh

Quotes 

• Dr. Leo Pugh : I joined your father as a mathematical genius. That's not boasting. I was, once. A calculating boy. But these machines, they beat me. I press buttons.

  Paula Quatermass : Why did you join him?

  Dr. Leo Pugh : Looking for some kind of beauty, I suppose. The mathematical kind. The idea of making roads in space for rockets to travel. Four-dimensional roads curved with relativity, metalled with best quality continuum. Hmm.

  [he realizes something] 

  Dr. Leo Pugh : These roads are two-way...

  [Pugh tries to go back to work. Paula stops him] 

  Paula Quatermass : The break's still on Leo. Tell me about the calculating boy.

  Dr. Leo Pugh : Ohh. At the village school, in Marianglas, the teacher, old Miss Williams, used to set me enormous sums to do. She loved to astonish herself, 'cause I always got them right. "You'll go far, Leo bach," she said. "You have the power to benefit mankind." Hm, and now I press buttons.