Theorems Quotes

Theorems Quote of the day

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.

There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.

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

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

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.

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

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy."

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

I think that mathematics can benefit by acknowledging that the creation of good models is just as important as proving deep theorems.

A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

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

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample.

You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?