Sofia Kovalevskaya quotes
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“Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.”
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“It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.”
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“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.”
-- Sofia KovalevskayaSource : "Sónya Kovalévsky: Her Recollections of Childhood" by Sofia Kovalevskaya, 1895.
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“Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.”
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Source : Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. March 26, 2008.
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“Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Dec. 1988
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