Arcadia

VALENTINE (casually):  Well, it’s all trivial anyway.

BERNARD:  What is?

VALENTINE:  Who wrote what when…

BERNARD:  Trivial?

VALENTINE:  Personalities.

BERNARD:  I’m sorry–did you say trivial?

VALENTINE:  It’s a technical term.

BERNARD:  Not where I come from, it isn’t.

VALENTINE:  The questions you’re asking don’t matter, you see.  It’s like arguing who got there first with the calculus.  The English say Newton, the Germans say Leibnitz.  But it doesn’t matter.   Personalities.   What matters is the calculus.  Scientific progress.  Knowledge.

BERNARD:  Really?  Why?

VALENTINE:  Why what?

BERNARD:  Why does scientific progress matter more than personalities?