An intelligent and powerful professor at the National Institute school that Werner attends, Dr. Hauptmann is at first a powerful ally for Werner, giving his bright student science projects and special assignments that win him the good graces of the entire faculty. But when Werner begins to express his doubts about the morality of the Nazi regime, Hauptmann exposes his true pettiness and spitefulness: he lies about Werner’s age, forcing him to be sent to fight in the German army.
Dr. Hauptmann Quotes in All the Light We Cannot See
The All the Light We Cannot See quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Hauptmann or refer to Dr. Hauptmann. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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3. Blackbirds
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Why always triangles? What is the purpose of the transceiver they are building? What two points does Hauptmann know, and why does he need to know the third? “It’s only numbers, cadet,” Hauptmann says, a favorite maxim. “Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.”
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Werner Pfennig (speaker), Dr. Hauptmann (speaker)
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Dr. Hauptmann Quotes in All the Light We Cannot See
The All the Light We Cannot See quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Hauptmann or refer to Dr. Hauptmann. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
3. Blackbirds
Quotes
Why always triangles? What is the purpose of the transceiver they are building? What two points does Hauptmann know, and why does he need to know the third? “It’s only numbers, cadet,” Hauptmann says, a favorite maxim. “Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.”
Related Characters:
Werner Pfennig (speaker), Dr. Hauptmann (speaker)
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