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MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.
— Jim Propp
In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.
— Martin Gardner
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
— Albert Camus
...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.
— Louis J. Mordell
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!
— Shaquille O'Neal
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
— Lord Acton
the theorem of incompleteness . . . [shows] there is nothing on this level of existence that can fully explain this level of existence.
— Pat Cadigan
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
— Stephen Hawking
Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been considered. Hey! They're all gone!! Oh, well, never mind...
— David Batchelor
And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.
— James Hilton
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.
— Jacob Bronowski
[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
Under Bayes' theorem, no theory is perfect. Rather, it is a work in progress, always subject to further refinement and testing.
— Nate Silver
What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?
— Michel Serres
The future is the result of actions, and actions are the result of behavior, and behavior is the result of prediction.
— David McRaney
The Limbaugh Theorem was not about me giving me credit for something. It was simply sharing with you when the light went off.
— Rush Limbaugh
Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better
— Michael Atiyah
Bell's theorem ... proves that quantum theory requires connections that appear to resemble telepathic communication.
— Gary Zukav
There are no proofs. There are only agreements
— Paul W. Silver
It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
— Edmund Landau
Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.
— Dominic Lawson
I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
— Andrew Wiles
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.
— Ronald Fisher
I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem.
— Truth Devour
A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution.
— Richard Arnold Epstein
Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.
— Hermann Minkowski
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
— Atle Selberg
There's no answer for my offense, just like the polythagorean theorem.
— Shaquille O'Neal
I tend to regard the Coase theorem as a stepping stone on the way to an analysis of an economy with positive transaction costs.
— Ronald Coase
(As a rule of thumb, the sample size must be at least 30 for the central limit theorem to hold true.) This
— Charles Wheelan
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means ...
— Henri Poincare
Identifying a problem is the real theorem and fixing it is only a corollary.
— Balan Gothandaraman
The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.
— Edward Abbey