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 t…

- Sofia Kovalevskaya

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

- Sofia Kovalevskaya

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

- Sofia Kovalevskaya

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…

- Sofia Kovalevskaya