“...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world.” WorldSeemsScienceNatureConsciousnessStudyPureExperienceMathematicsDrawingMathematicianOuter Worlds Book:The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition] Source: The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]
“The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.” FactsSeemsScienceNatureNaturalEssentialsCapableDrawsAccountsMathematicsObservationMathematical Author:James Jeans
“Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.” MenWorldMindHumansScienceNaturePerceptionMathematicsBlueVariousMathematicalHuman MindBiasDiscussingSpectacles Book:The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition] Source: The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]
