Quotes About Theorem

His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting on with his theorem.

I have discovered a truly marvellous demonstration [of this general theorem] which this margin is too narrow to contain.

the clerk in the ministry to correct this, he pulled out his original typescript. "See for yourself, madam. Quod erat demonstrandum it is Missing," he said, as if he'd proved Pythagoras's theorem, the sun's central position in the solar system, the roundness of the

It will be remembered that the 'central theorem' of the selfish organism claims that an animal's behaviour tends to maximize its own (inclusive) fitness. We saw that to talk of an individual behaving so as to maximize its inclusive fitness is equivalent to talking of the gene or genes 'for' that behaviour pattern maximizing their survival.

A scientific theorum has not been - cannot be - proved in the way a mathematical theorem is proved.

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.

The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long continuous conversations with itself.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

It is safe to say that with the discovery of DNA around the middle of the last century Darwinism was in effect disqualified as a scientific theory. With the publication moreover of Dembski's 1998 theorem regarding 'complex specified information' it has been rigorously disproved on mathematical grounds, and thus reduced from a bona-fide scientific hypothesis to the status of a sociological phenomenon.

Two is the only even prime.

All 'nows' are equal; that is the basic theorem of time travel. They don't disappear; both 'past' and 'future' are mathematical abstractions; the 'now' is always all there is.

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

THERE WERE AT least two ways to solve any problem: from the beginning, which was the usual approach; and from the end, which was not. Likewise, every theorem could be proved either directly, using incremental logic, or indirectly, by conjecturing the negative of the hypothesis and demonstrating a contradiction. Thus there were at least four permutations to choose from.

It is a famous theorem first proved by the great (Italian-) French mathematician Joseph L. Lagrange in 1770 that every number is, indeed, the sum of four squares.

Whatever— the soup is getting cold. [Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci's notebook, 1518]

I'm no enthusiast for the Coase Theorem. I don't like it, but it's widely used.

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.

And in this way was born the concept, central to all mathematics and science, of proof.

Pythagoras of Samos, in the later sixth century BCE

That story is proof of the theorem that then as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey plus music equals what can only be called happiness.

The amalgam of Truth and Beauty revealed through the understanding of an important theorem cannot be attained through any other human activity, unless it be (I wouldn't know) that of mystical religion.

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.