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• No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
• The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and… — George Polya
• The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher
• Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This… — Alfred Renyi
• [On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be… — Gabriel Lippmann
• It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something… — Henri Poincare
• The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the… — G. H. Hardy
• One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. — Stephen Hawking

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