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Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
(1772 - 1801)
German poet.
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Science Quotes by Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg) (8 quotes)
Das Leben der Gotter ist Mathematik.
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
— Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
Attributed.
An anecdote is an historical molecule…. The general form of history is a fusion of anecdotes.
— Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
In M.J. Hope (ed., trans.), Novalis: His Life, Thoughts, and Works (1891), 188.
Mathematics is the life supreme. The life of the gods is mathematics. All divine messengers are mathematicians. Pure mathematics is religion. Its attainment requires a theophany.
— Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
In Schriften (1901), Bd.. 2, 223.
Music has much resemblance to algebra.
— Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
From Ludwig Tieck and Fr. Schlegel (eds.) Novalis schriften (1837), Vol. 2, 313. As translated in Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath’s Quotation-book (1914), 190, from the original German, “Die Musik hat viel Aehnlichkeit mit der Algebra.”
One may be a mathematician of the first rank without being able to compute. It is possible to be a great computer without having the slightest idea of mathematics.
— Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
In Schriften, Zweiter Teil (1901), 223.
Pure mathematics is not concerned with magnitude. It is merely the doctrine of notation of relatively ordered thought operations which have become mechanical.
— Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
In Schriften (1901), Zweiter Teil, 282.
The mathematical method is the essence of mathematics. He who fully comprehends the method is a mathematician.
— Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
In Schriften (1901), Zweiter Teil, 190.
The real mathematician is an enthusiast per se. Without enthusiasm no mathematics.
— Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
In Schriften (1901), Zweiter Teil, 223.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
