Agora

Hypatia:
Synesius, you don't question what you believe, or cannot. I must.

Hypatia:
[Looks up at night sky] If I could just unravel this just a little bit more, and just get a little closer to the answer, then... Then I would go to my grave a happy woman.

Heladius Dignitary:
The majority of us here... have accepted Christ. Why not the rest of you? It's only a matter of time and you know it.

Hypatia:
Really? It is just a matter of time?... As far as I am aware, your God has not yet proved himself to be more just or more merciful than his predecessors. Is it really just a matter of time before I accept your faith?

Heladius Dignitary:
Why should this assembly accept the council of someone who admittedly believes in absolutely nothing?

Hypatia:
I believe in philosophy.

Hypatia:
Ever since Plato, all of them - Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Ptolemy - they have all, all, all tried to reconcile their observations with circular orbits. But what if another shape is hiding in the heavens?

Davus:
Another shape? Lady, there is no shape more pure than the circle; you taught us that.

Hypatia:
I know, I know, but suppose - just suppose! - the purity of the circle has blinded us from seeing anything beyond it! I must begin all over with new eyes. I must rethink everything!... What if we dared to look at the world just as it is. Let us shed for a moment every preconceived idea - what shape would it show us?

Davus:
I was forgiven but now I can't forgive.

Ammonius:
Forgive? Who the Jews?

Davus:
Well Jesus pardoned them on the cross.