“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”
“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science, and all that is beautiful in Art.”
“Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”
“The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.”
“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.”
“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”