Art Quote by Georg Cantor

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

— Georg Cantor

The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on…

— Israel Nathan Herstein

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills.…

— Albert Einstein

“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”

— Piet Hein

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

— Donald Barthelme

“If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer”

— Savas Dimopoulos

A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

— John Donne

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

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

— Harold Davenport

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

— Peter Medawar

The question for the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in which direction it will find…

— Hermann Weyl

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

— Thomas A. Edison