Mathematician 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, and thus…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Karl Weierstrass

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

— Karl Weierstrass

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

— Plato

'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

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

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

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

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

“A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.”

— Isaac Asimov

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

“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