Demonstration Quote by Blaise Pascal

Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man,…

— Christopher Wren

These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had…

— Rene Descartes

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

— Augustus De Morgan

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they…

— Jacques Ellul

“In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the edge of conventional logic.”

— Peter Sloterdijk

“I hope you theorists know what you’re doing.’ ‘I can assure you that we don’t. The geometry is still beyond us. All I learnt…

— Greg Egan

I once knew an otherwise excellent teacher who compelled his students to perform all their demonstrations with incorrect figures, on the theory that it…

— Ernst Mach

Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials…

— Henry Jacob Bigelow

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

— Voltaire

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the…

— Stella Adler