Dreams Quote by Paul Lockhart

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology…

— Paul Lockhart

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

— David Eugene Smith

Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a…

— Anonymous

In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at…

— Michael Atiyah

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

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject.

— G. H. Hardy

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

— John Locke

Mathematics is nothing more, nothing less, than the exact part of our thinking.

— L. E. J. Brouwer

...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Mathematics is the handwriting on the human consciousness of the very Spirit of Life itself.

— Claude Fayette Bragdon

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead