Enough Quote by Pierre de Fermat

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

— Anonymous

“I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.”

— Fermat

The margin is very marginal.

— Bobby Robson

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

— Greg Boyle

A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

— Morris Kline

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.

— Barack Obama

“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

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

— Michael Atiyah

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is…

— Ted Nelson

My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

— Georg Cantor

Just another proof, of course, of what I often say - it takes all sorts to make a world.

— Anonymous