Fourier Quote by Anonymous

[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...

— Lord Kelvin

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

— Lord Kelvin

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science,…

— Robert Turnbull

“It was like trying to solve a math equation with a poem.”

— Mara Purnhagen

“A poem does not radiate from the name, but the name emanates from the poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

— Robert Frost

“But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted…

— Christopher Paolini

“How could such heat remain when we were not even touching?”

— Alison Goodman

“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery…

— Elizabeth Hand

“We knew that it would soon be over, and so we put it all into a poem, to tell the universe who we were,…

— Neil Gaiman

“Her mere proximity gave him the most peculiar sensation, like the kind of heat sent out when a log shatters to ash in a…

— Laren Kate

“Begun in fire, ending in ice. The poet was wrong; ice was a better destroyer than fire, particularly if you were in the mood…

— Dana Stabenow