Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Quotes

Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Mathematics is the true language that the universe is written in. They key to understanding the world around us.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

I'm a mathematician and always have been, as far as I can remember. I don't remember when I first got involved with mathematics, but I think of myself always as a mathematician first.

I think math is exciting, you know.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.