Belief Quote by Gabriel Lippmann

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about…

— Anonymous

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Stephen Hawking

“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such…

— Henri Darmon

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be…

— Henri Poincare

“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

“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to the furtherance…

— G.H. Hardy

The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been…

— G. H. Hardy

“It is by logic that we prove. It is by intuition that we discover," said the mathematician Henri Poincare.l”

— Ellen J. Langer

“The importance of C.F. Gauss for the development of modern physical theory and especially for the mathematical fundament of the theory of relativity is…

— Albert Einstein

“One can set up a completely self-contained mathematical theory, which proceeds from the elementary laws that are valid for individual points to processes in…

— Bernard Riemann