# "It doesn't do anything. That's the beauty of it!" Pt. 2

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**Created:** [September 2, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-do-anything-thats-the-beauty-of-it-pt-2/508597 "2009-09-02T02:43:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-do-anything-thats-the-beauty-of-it-pt-2/508597/21 "2011-03-27T19:46:39Z")

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> No Highway In The Sky (1951) is playing now.
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> Theodore Honey (Jimmy Stewart) tries to solve Goldbach’s conjecture:
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> Dennis Scott: Sounds interesting, but, isn’t it a little pointless?  
> Theodore Honey: Oh, quite. That’s the beauty of it.

That’s probably mostly a reference to Gauss’s famous “Queen of the Sciences” quote.

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**Author:** ![popess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@popess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/popess)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-doesnt-do-anything-thats-the-beauty-of-it-pt-2/508597/22 "2011-09-15T20:31:11Z")

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I think the movie is “Big” with Tom Hanks

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