Fermat's Room Quotes

  • Doctor: You can't go on like this. You have to get out. I'm speaking as a doctor, not as a friend.

    Hilbert: You tell me three times a day. Three! I'm speaking as a mathematician, not as a friend.

  • Hilbert: This reminds me of the riddle about the shepherd who has to cross the river in a boat with a sheep, a wolf and a cabbage. You know it? Only two can go in the boat. For example, the shepherd and the sheep, or the shepherd and the cabbage. You have to work out how he can cross the river without the wolf eating the sheep or the sheep eating the cabbage.

    Pascal: Why would a shepherd bring a wolf? What's more, I don't see what it has to do with this situation.

    Oliva: Perhaps Professor Hilbert meant that one of us is the shepherd; another, the wolf; another, the sheep; and another, the cabbage.

  • Galois: You think it'll resist?

    Pascal: Pressure is unpredictable. It can turn coal into dust or a diamond.

    Hilbert: Was that Archimedes?

    Pascal: No, MacGyver.

  • Policeman: Don't you know that 28% of people who die on the roads travel like you, without their safety belt?

    Fermat: So all the rest, the other 72%, die with their belt on.

  • Pascal: Do you remember if he was a murderer?

    Galois: Why would he be?

    Pascal: Come on! Because, of the five of us who are here, he's the only one with a cell. -In Spanish, "móvil" can mean both "mobile phone" and "motive"...

  • Pascal: I put my shoe in the glove compartment.

  • Hilbert: I return video tapes without rewinding them, I lie in electoral surveys. I take communion without fasting. I pick fruit without wearing plastic gloves. Could anyone hate me for things like that?

  • Oliva: I never liked the Internet.

  • Oliva: I won't fit!

    Pascal: If your head fits, your body fits.

    Oliva: Try putting your ass in a helmet!

  • Pascal: Problem solved.

  • Pascal: The world is as it was.

  • [first lines]

    Galois: Do you know what prime numbers are? Because if you don't, you should just leave now.

Extended Reading
  • Gaylord 2022-03-25 09:01:18

    There are too many vulgar plots, and the director also pretends to be smart in order to pretend to be smart

  • Keyon 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    Powerful history of mathematics + favorite secret room suspense, there is a question: Can foreign audiences understand what mahjong in the film is...?