Math Quote by Karl Weierstrass

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

— Karl Weierstrass

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

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“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

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

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

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

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the…

— George Henry Lewes

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 poet never feels useful.

— May Sarton

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

— Abraham Kaplan

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

— Henry David Thoreau