Mathematics Quote by G.K. Chesterton

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

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks…

— G K Chesterton

“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

“Critics are much madder than poets... Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea,…

— Chesterton, G.K

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from…

— Brian Patten

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

— David Eugene Smith

“It was like trying to solve a math equation with a poem.”

— Mara Purnhagen

“The romantic seeks only to get his head into the heavens. The rationalist seeks to get the heavens into his head – and it…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

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

— Karl Weierstrass

“To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in.…

— G.K. Chesterton