Compassion Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

— Karl Weierstrass

“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician. [Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry] ”

— David Hilbert

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And…

— Anonymous

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

— Karl Weierstrass

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

“had been deeply struck.... by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of equality in…

— Edward Frenkel

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing…

— Mary Everest Boole

“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from…

— Alexander Grothendieck

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

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

— Plato

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert