Mathematics Quote by Patricia Geary

“Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.”

— C. J. Redwine

“It was like trying to solve a math equation with a poem.”

— Mara Purnhagen

“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

“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

— Maria Mitchell

“...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

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

— Karl Weierstrass

“She used to be a mathematician. Now she looks for omens and signs. At one time she thought math would clarify the world for…

— Josephine Humphreys

“Really crazy stuff. I think they call it abstract math. What he created was usually beyond me, even conceptually.”

— Douglas E. Richards

“Math, like meditation, puts you in direct contact with the universe, which is bigger than you, was here before you, and will be here…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Some of them hated the mathematics that drove them, and some were afraid, and some worshipped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from…

— John Steinbeck

“Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?”

— Ned Vizzini

“like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities.”

— Daniel Tammet