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> [Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-kovalevskaya/many-who-have-never-had-an-opportunity-of-knowing-any-more-about/)

Sofia Kovalevskaya

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> [Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-kovalevskaya/many-who-have-had-an-opportunity-of-knowing-any-more-about/)

Sofia Kovalevskaya

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## Other authors on Arithmetic

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arithmetic/bertrand-russell/)

## More by Sofia Kovalevskaya

> [Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-kovalevskaya/say-what-you-know-do-what-you-must-come-what-may/)

Sofia Kovalevskaya

> [Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-kovalevskaya/many-who-have-never-had-an-opportunity-of-knowing-any-more-about/)

Sofia Kovalevskaya

> [Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-kovalevskaya/many-who-have-had-an-opportunity-of-knowing-any-more-about/)

Sofia Kovalevskaya

> [It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sofia-kovalevskaya/it-is-impossible-to-be-a-mathematician-without-being-a-poet-in-soul/)

Sofia Kovalevskaya

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