Mathematician Quote by Karl Weierstrass

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

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

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.”

— Bruce Schechter

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

“Strange as it may seem, not all of the great mathematicians have been professors in colleges or universities. Quite a few were soldiers by…

— Eric Temple Bell

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

— Julian Barnes

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

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

“...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is always right…

— Alfred Korzybski