We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
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We especially need imagination in science.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.