#proofs

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. ↗

— Zane Grey

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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#friendship #goodness #greatest #heart #lasting

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. ↗

— John Clare

#edition #had #how #i #life

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#demanded #doubt #equal #every #half

In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#authority #connection #experience #faith #feelings

The fun little proofs that you can do with algebra - they are sort of like crowd pleasers in a way. Like, the .9 repeating equaling one. It doesn't take a lot of algebra to prove that, and it's really fun. It kind of wows people. It's like they're watching magic happen right before their eyes. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#before #crowd #eyes #fun #happen

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#date #greeks #proofs #still #today

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. ↗

— Stefan Banach

#better #between #find #mathematician #notice

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs. ↗

— Felix Klein

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