Education Quote by David Eugene Smith

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

— Albert Einstein

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

— Charles Williams

Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that…

— Salomon Bochner

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

— John Steinbeck

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human…

— Ezra Pound

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

— G. H. Hardy

... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large…

— Lipman Bers

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different…

— Henri Poincare