Poetry = Anger x Imagination

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut

It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal?

Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Infinity...is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

The integrals which we have obtained are not only general expressions which satisfy the differential equation, they represent in the most distinct manner the natural effect which is the object of the phenomenon... when this condition is fulfilled, the integral is, properly speaking, the equation of the phenomenon; it expresses clearly the character and progress of it, in the same manner as the finite equation of a line or curved surface makes known all the properties of those forms.