Humor Quote by David Hilbert

“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.”

— Karl Weierstrass

Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off…

— George Polya

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.”

— Patricia Geary

A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.

— Karl Weierstrass

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

— Maria Mitchell

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.”

— C. J. Redwine

“Surely this marked a new level of achievement in his amatory career. Never before had he charmed the frock off a woman with talk…

— Tessa Dare

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus…

— Edgar Allan Poe