Theorems Quotes

It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.

— Edmund Landau

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

— Bernhard Riemann

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

— Pierre de Fermat

In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven.

— Kurt Gödel

Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better.

— Michael Atiyah

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...

— Thomas Pynchon

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

— Brian Greene

There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite…

— Carl Sandburg

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he…

— Paul Erdos

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be…

— Gabriel Lippmann

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

— Atle Selberg

Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

— Paul Halmos

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver…

— Edward Mills Purcell

A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution.

— Richard Arnold Epstein

Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined…

— Fritjof Capra

There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

[Barack] Obama still is in campaign mode. The Limbaugh Theorem explains it. We've had eight years of Obama and he still isn't…

— Rush Limbaugh

If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…

— Martin Gardner

We re-make nature by the act of discovery, in the poem or in the theorem. And the great poem and the deep…

— Jacob Bronowski

I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For…

— Archimedes

Paul Erdos has a theory that God has a book containing all the theorems of mathematics with their absolutely most beautiful proofs,…

— Ross Honsberger

Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as…

— L. Neil Smith

Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on…

— William Thurston

...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater…

— Donald Knuth

“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either…

— Philip K. Dick

An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises…

— David Berlinski

I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that…

— William Thurston

Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these…

— Morris Kline

It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to…

— G. H. Hardy

The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so…

— Kurt Gödel

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

— Kenneth Appel

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

— Lord Acton

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

— Henri Poincare

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

— Alan Perlis

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

— Joseph Stiglitz

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

— G. H. Hardy