• rbhfd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He said that he would have dreams of drops of blood (a symbol of his village deity, the goddess Namagiri Thayar), followed by complex mathematical equations. Even with the help of his formally-trained friend GH Hardy, he was only able to prove a small fraction of his insights.

    “It came to me in a dream and I forgot it in another dream”

    ~ Prof. Farnsworth

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      1 year ago

      I love how often Farnsworth’s nonsense is usually an actual reference to something in Science.

      It’s like a double joke, you laugh because it’s nonsense, you laugh harder because it isn’t.