It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ... — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I'm no enthusiast for the Coase Theorem. I don't like it, but it's widely used. — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions. — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
“That story is proof of the theorem that then as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey plus music equals what… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem? — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
“One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence in space. The… — Friedrich Hund Copy Share Image
“The seriousness of a theorem, of course, does not lie in its consequences, which are merely the evidence for its seriousness.” — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Hey! They're all gone!! Oh, well, never mind...” — David Batchelor Copy Share Image
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“theorem says that P( cause | effect) = P( cause) × P( effect | cause) / P( effect). Replace cause by A and effect by B and” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
“The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends a great deal on its seriousness, as even in poetry the beauty of a line… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The Limbaugh Theorem is the way Obama gets away with no accountability for anything he's done is he never was perceived as… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it.… — Bill Evans Copy Share Image
To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about… — John B. Conway Copy Share Image
Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The real truth - like anything, you have an idea about something you might write and it changes. People reflect on it… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
“It was not a friendly picture, but to Conway, as he surveyed, there came a queer perception of fineness in it, of… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself. — Edmund Landau Copy Share Image
“Identifying a problem is the real theorem and fixing it is only a corollary.” — Balan Gothandaraman Copy Share Image
“All polynomials of degree n-those that have a leading term of x^n- split into n distinct terms. This is the fundamental theorem… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
The paraphrase of Gödel's Theorem says that for any record player, there are records which it cannot play because they will cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution. — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
