Wisdom Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

— Lord Kelvin

Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument…

— Lord Kelvin

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

— Paul Halmos

“In external ways Pierre had hardly changed at all. In appearance he was just what he used to be. As before he was absent-minded…

— Anonymous

“French mathematician Jacques Hadamard (1865–1963): “The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.” I”

— Paul J. Nahin

“Components of his experiences seemed to break down, sorting into hard facts, like a series of crystals, as if they could be arranged, made…

— Brent Hayward

“Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one’s way in the dark.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“He thought the best thing he had gained in Paris was a complete liberty of spirit, and he felt himself at last absolutely free.…

— William Somerset Maugham

Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time…

— Bruce Hood

“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.”

— Ernst Jünger