Top 1200 Mathematical Proof Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Men often think it's the bad boys who get the hot chicks. But I'm living proof that the good guys win.

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world will offer us numerous examples, makes one of the greatest charms attached to mathematical speculations.

Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is no way that uncertainty can be compressed into determinate mathematical models.

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Ephemerality is the little magazine's generic fate; by promptly dying it gives proof that it remained loyal to its first program.

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

There is presumably a calendar date a moment when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.

[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the mind, but upon the whole mind, that this is the greatest desideratum is. I assume, beyond dispute.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.

My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately.

You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.

We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it.

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

I took a course on 'Magic, Alchemy, and Astrology' at Mount Holyoke, and it was a whole new awakening for me, a way of thinking about the world primarily in terms of concepts and words rather than mathematical formulas.

I was in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So I had some of the most brilliant mathematical statistical minds in the country, who would put together the modern technology, if you like, of understanding the economy and tracking it and trying to influence it.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth.

We have oft lamented the cancellation of 'Body of Proof,' I'm not gonna lie. That was a good show for us, and it was sad to see it go.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

If you're a digital startup, building and highlighting your social proof is the best way for new users to learn about you.

I'm walking proof that second chances work. I want to help others get the same opportunities I've been given.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.

The insatiable thirst for everything that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.

Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.

You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom.

What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to prevent it?

The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances of this generation, the human mind has been baffled in its attempts to construct a universal science of physics.

...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but when that amusement is over, nature will return, and be where it was, being rather diverted than overcome by such speculations.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

On tour, it's either call ex-boyfriends or tweet a lot. You're just looking for any proof that you're not completely alone.

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.

For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.

I venture to give an alternative method of regarding the processes occurring in the electric field, which I have often found useful and which is, from a mathematical point of view, equivalent to Maxwell's Theory.

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.