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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
- To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as… — Albert Camus
- And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles… — James Hilton
- The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates… — Jacob Bronowski
- The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application… — George Polya
- That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot… — Shaquille O'Neal
- Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put… — Philip Pullman
- The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and… — George Polya
- We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism… — Ronald Fisher
- If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see… — George Polya
- Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred… — Andrew Wiles
- The development of mathematics toward greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so… — Kurt Gödel