Impossible Quote by Sofia Kovalevskaya

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

— Karl Weierstrass

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

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

— Roger Bacon

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— David Eugene Smith

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

“Mathematicians think in symbols, physicists in objects, philosophers in concepts, geometers in images, jurists in constructs, logicians in operators, writers in impressions, and idiots…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is…

— Blaise Pascal

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

— Steven G. Krantz

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

— Jane Goodall

I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even…

— Julia Robinson