Funny Quote by Adrian Mathesis

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

— Andrew Wiles

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested…

— Harold Davenport

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

— Atle Selberg

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

— Oliver Heaviside

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

— Stephen Hawking

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

— Carl Pomerance

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional…

— George Polya

Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of guesses by speculation…

— Imre Lakatos

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

— William Thurston

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good…

— Steven G. Krantz