"Mathematics is pure poetry." (Immanuel Kant, "Opus Postumum")
“Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.” (Havelock Ellis)
“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.” (Marcus du Sautoy)
"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing]. (Henri Poincare)
"There is no getting out of it. Through and through the world is infected with quantity. To talk sense is to talk in quantities. […] You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and to music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. Elegant intellects which despise the theory of quantity are but half developed. They are more to be pitied than blamed." (Alfred N Whitehead)
“You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.” (Alfred N Whitehead)
“What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?” (David E Smith)
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." (Paul A M Dirac)
"Poetry is as exact a science as geometry." (Gustave Flaubert)
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