“Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse 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
Tags: Amount | Any | Arid | Arithmetic | Confuse | Consider | Great | Had | However | Imagination | Knowing | Many | Mathematics | More | Opportunity | Reality | Requires | Science | Which
53% of people like this quote
Sofia Kovalevskaya
Author details
Related authors
Other Sofia Kovalevskaya Quotes
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse 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
53% of people like this quote
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
51% of people like this quote
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
49% of people like this quote