Consequence Quote by G. H. Hardy

“The seriousness of a theorem, of course, does not lie in its consequences, which are merely the evidence for its seriousness.”

— G.H. Hardy

“The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends a great deal on its seriousness, as even in poetry the beauty of a line may depend…

— G.H. Hardy

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional…

— George Polya

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is.

— Stanislaw Ulam

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

— Stephen Hawking

“However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.”

— Stephen Hawking

The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others.

— Adrian Mathesis

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is…

— Hermann Hesse

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

— Atle Selberg

I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn…

— William Thurston

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe