It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that…

To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection…

— John B. Conway

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before…

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Lord Acton

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

— Michael Atiyah

What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

— Michel Serres

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

— Fritjof Capra

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

— Richard Arnold Epstein

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

— Shaquille O'Neal

A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

— Anatol Rapoport

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

— Thomas Pynchon

The Limbaugh Theorem is the way Obama gets away with no accountability for anything he's done is he never was perceived as governing. He…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Edmund Landau

What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else. Roughly speaking, people know…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“Why fit in someones equation when you can create your own theorem.”

— Nivesh Raj

I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever…

— Andrew Wiles