#theorem

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. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#first #forgets #his #man #second

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#device #into #mathematician #theorems #turning

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling. ↗

— Bill Evans

#because #bugs #children #explain #feeling

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

— Pierre de Fermat

#exceedingly #found #great #great number #i

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

— Ronald Fisher

#arithmetic #arranging #convenient #mathematical #method

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. ↗

— James Meade

#douglas #economics #expression #gradually #major

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer! ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#like #offense #our #theorem

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#day #figure #game #hard #i

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#by the time #figure #got #i #out

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

#conventional wisdom #counter #economists #like #often