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“Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.”

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Book:The nature of the physical world

Source: The nature of the physical world

“The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.”

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Book:Translations of the philosophical works

Source: Translations of the philosophical works

“Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.”

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Author:Roger Lewin

“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“...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.”

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Book:The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]

Source: The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]

“The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.”

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Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.”

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Author:Paul Dirac