Report Quote #13440

// On the application of reason to geometry, talking about the Pythagoreans. Rose: "Let's say I found 20 people, and put them in a room with food and water for a month, and asked them to prove geometry." Rose: "I'm a cult leader, and they're all committed to me." Rose: "They may define something, they might rebel, I don't know." // Later... Rose: "What might be something that might be, like, hard to figure out?" // Mutters from the class. Rose: "True. Hard stuff is hard to figure out." // Later, proving that sqrt(2) is irrational by contradiction, reaching the crux of the proof. Rose: "Now, a strange sense of weirdness -- cue the "Woo-o woo-o" music -- descends upon you."