Math Proof Quotes

#1. By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

Danica McKellar

#2. Prithee," He protested, "if thou wouldst waiteth a goddamned second-

Tessa Dare

#3. A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

Hendrik Lenstra

#4. Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

David Hilbert

#5. You'll often see posts about people beating the CAP theorem. They haven't. What they have done is create a system where some capabilities are CP, and some are AP. The mathematical proof behind the CAP theorem holds. Despite many attempts at school, I've learned that you don't beat math.

Sam Newman

#6. My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

Yukimi Nagano

#7. This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.

Emil Artin

#8. Rocket," I said, straightening in the chair. "Donovan was just helping me with my contacts."
Donovan raised his brows humorously.
Rocket furrowed his. "Did you swallow them?

Darynda Jones

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

John Locke

#10. I'm addicted to New York, and I like L.A., as I have kids there. Sometimes I think New Mexico is the one place where I could almost live there. It helps your acting; there's magic in that place.

Mark Margolis

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

Gian-Carlo Rota

#12. Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#13. If you draw a circle, there will always be an inside and an outside, and unless you're a total nut job, it's pretty easy to see which is which. It just happens.

Lauren Oliver

#14. Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Eddington

#15. Someone has remarked that 'An ideal math talk should have one proof and one joke and they should not be the same'.

Ronald Graham

#16. Make this the year you tackle that credit card debt once and for all.

Suze Orman

#17. Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not. More or less selfish, happy, wise, lonely.

Adi Alsaid

#18. My love for math eventually became a passion. I went to math camp when I was fourteen and came home clutching a Rubik's Cube to my chest. Math provided a neat refuge from the messiness of the real world. It marched forward, its field of knowledge expanding relentlessly, proof by proof. And

Cathy O'Neil

#19. I started Rooney in high school. These were guys I went to high school with and guys I knew from L.A.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

#20. A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Al Bernstein

#21. A consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

Kurt Godel

#22. I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

Jenson Button

#23. From now on whenever I read a math book, I'm going to try to figure out by myself how everything was done, before looking at the solution. Even if I don't figure it out, I think I'll be able to see the beauty of a proof then.

Donald E. Knuth

#24. The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

Catherine McCormack