Theorem Quotes
68 quotes by 55 authors
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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 imperfect about it…
— George Boole
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
— Albert Camus
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And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
— James Hilton
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The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.
— Jacob Bronowski
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The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is…
— George Polya
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That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really…
— Shaquille O'Neal
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Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in…
— Philip Pullman
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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to…
— George Polya
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We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time…
— Ronald Fisher
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If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it…
— George Polya
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Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it…
— Andrew Wiles
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The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can…
— Kurt Gödel
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Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to…
— Paul Halmos
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In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil…
— Chen-Ning Yang
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For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by…
— Seymour Papert
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There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain…
— George Polya
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My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex…
— Bill Bryson
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Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...
— Thomas Pynchon
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The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
— Edward Abbey
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Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first…
— Johannes Kepler
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