The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
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.
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
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