“ To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards. ”
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. ”
- George Boole- Copy
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“ When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my Theorem. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ By the time I was a student in high school… I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. ”
- John Nash- Copy
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“ Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means… machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages… ”
- Henri Poincare- Copy
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“ All the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the theory of computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally… ”
- Douglas R. Hofstadter- Copy
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