I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled…

“But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.”

— Cecelia Ahern

Fermat said he had a proof.

— Andrew Wiles

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.

— Andrew Wiles

“…his solid body, the weight of him, his movement, all so real, all so there. It doesn’t matter who he is. There are so…

— Kerry Cohen

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us…

— Amish Tripathi

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Fermat never cared to publish his investigations, but was always perfectly ready, as we see from his letters, to acquaint his friends and contemporaries…

— Thomas Little Heath

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

— Alan Perlis

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that…

— David Hilbert

“Fermat’s last theorem,”

— Charles Krauthammer

“I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the morning, I…

— Anonymous

“It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I…

— René Descartes

By the time I was a student in high school...I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself…

— John Nash

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and…

— Anonymous