This comes from a very long list of alternative phrases and words that was used to create “a program that will insert condescending adverbial phrases before any statement in a math proof”. But use it where you will - I’m sure other fields can benefit. Tag yourself, I’m “By abstract nonsense“.
- By circular reasoning we see that
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There is a marvellous proof (which is too long to write here) that
- Figure 2 (not shown here) makes it clear that
- It is beyond the scope of this course to prove that
- Only idealogues and sycophants would debate whether
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The Math Gods demand that
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For legal reasons I am required to disclose that
- Remember the basic laws of common sense:
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Life is too short to prove that
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All the cool kids know that
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Wherefore said He unto them,
- With God as my witness,
- As a great man once told me,
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Galois died in order to show us that
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It pleases the symmetry of the world that
- Mama always told me
- By Euler
- By Fermat
- I know it, you know it, everybody knows that
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You of all people should realize that
- The proof is left to the reader that
- We need not waste ink in proving that
- It would be an insult to my time and yours to prove that
- I shudder to think of the poor soul who denies that
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We don’t want to deprive the reader of the joy of discovering for themselves why,
- Barring causality breakdown, clearly
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Through the careful use of common sense,
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According to prophecy,
- This won’t be on the test, but
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When one stares at the equations they immediately rearrange themselves to show that
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If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times,
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Our forefathers built this country on the proposition that
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By abstract nonsense,
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My father told me, and his father before that, and his before that, that
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The burden of proof is on my opponents to disprove that
- The voices insist that
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Assuming an arbitrary alignment of planets, astrology tells us

