Analogue Quote by Martin Gardner

Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better.

— Michael Atiyah

“It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards,…

— Herbert S. Gaskill

“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being…

— Paul Lockhart

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

— Stanislaw Ulam

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

— Atle Selberg

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

— Pierre de Fermat

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested…

— Harold Davenport

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

God has the Big Book, the beautiful proofs of mathematical theorems are listed here.

— Paul Erdos

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

— Archimedes

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

— John Locke