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Proof Quotes by Andrew Wiles
- Fermat said he had a proof.
- There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
- Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right…
- It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to…
- I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
More Proof Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs… — Stefan Banach
- The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. — Karl Barth
- Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that… — Roland Barthes
- The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality. — Charles Baudelaire
- Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. — Martha Beck
- A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it… — Claude Bernard
- Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant
- He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. — Theodor Adorno
- The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes… — Jo Brand
- It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police… — Jan Brewer