Mathematics Quote by Henri Poincare

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science,…

— Robert Turnbull

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of…

— Bertrand Russell

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty— a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels…

— G.H. Hardy

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Mathematics, as much as music or any other art, is one of the means by which we rise to a complete self-consciousness. The significance…

— Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie

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

— Karl Weierstrass

Pure mathematics offers no mercenary inducements to its followers, who is attracted to it by the importance and beauty of the truths in contains;…

— James Whitbread Lee Glaisher

“A man didn’t specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.”

— Anne McCaffrey

“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.”

— Paul Dirac