Sofia Kovalevskaya quotes

Sofia Kovalevskaya quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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.”
-- Sofia Kovalevskaya

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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.”
-- Sofia Kovalevskaya

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“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.”
-- Sofia Kovalevskaya

Source : "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.”
-- Sofia Kovalevskaya

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