Well, it just makes me laugh because the bedrock of mathematics was made by his enemies.

When you go back and you look through all of those different things, you'll find that... The reason those one men were, those one guys, those great men, were bucking trends is because the trends themselves were based on entrenched power. And entrenched power controlled 97% of science at the time.

The only great scientist that I can think of that acted almost utterly singularly without constant input from other scientists, without a constant exchange of information. Well, it's obviously General Stubblebine. Pretty much. No, it was Isaac Newton. When he wrote Principia Mathematica, that was the only time in... Scientific history I can think of where it was like, this dude just fucking did that shit by himself. What an asshole.