Books Quote by Sam Kean

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

— Daniel Tammet

“When God, the great mathematician, discovered that in making man he had overdone things a bit, he created the bedbug to even things out.…

— Ruskin Bond

“Surely this marked a new level of achievement in his amatory career. Never before had he charmed the frock off a woman with talk…

— Tessa Dare

“He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn’t. It was the consensus of all whom he consulted that…

— Neal Stephenson

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

— Maria Mitchell

“What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?”

— Francis S. Collins

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

“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

“Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies the mysteries…

— James Luceno

“What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school?”

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.”

— richard feynman

“Where mathematics was a magnificent imaginary building, the world of story as represented by Dickens was like a deep, magical forest for Tengo. When…

— Haruki Murakami