Broke Quote by David Eugene Smith

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

— Augustus De Morgan

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

— Maria Montessori

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but…

— Meir Shalev

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had…

— Henri Poincare

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even…

— Anonymous

Some of the greatest ideas of all time have come to people during Math class... none of which had anything to do with Math.

— Hussein Nishah

If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed,…

— Freeman Dyson