Theorems Quotes

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

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

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

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.

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