“One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't...” – Photojournalist, Apocalypse Now ... Movie Quotes Database

One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions – what are you going to land on – one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.

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