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

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