David Eugene Smith Quotes

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

  David Eugene Smith

  Education, Heart, Math

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• One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1 expressed a world of thought, of truth, of poetry, and of the religious spirit "God eternally geometrizes."

  David Eugene Smith

  Religious, Truth, Poetry

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• What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.

  David Eugene Smith

  Education, Math, Discovery

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