“Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.” UniverseStarsBehindsShapesFlowMathematicsTinyAtomsCurvesReins Book:Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality Source: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
“The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that the light in the universe furnishes to my consciousness as an artisan which I try, by imposing an Order, and Art, an appropriate representative life, to organize.” TryingMeanArtLightSpiritOrderChoicesUniverseSpeakConsciousnessHarmonyMathematicsImpressionBotherAppropriateRepresentativesOrganizeImposingArtisans Author:Robert Delaunay
“Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.” HumansLawUniverseHuman BeingsUniversalMathematics Author:Paul Davies
“We believe that black holes collapse to rings hitting very fast. If you follow through the ring you don't die. The mathematics says you fall straight through, perhaps to another universe.” IfsBelieveDiesFallUniverseBlackMathematicsRingsHolesCollapseHittingBlack HoleFollow Through Author:Michio Kaku
“The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.” ThinkingMindHumansFormUniverseSubjectsMaterialsMathematicsVariousWideRangeManifestationBranchesAppropriateHuman MindCorrespondingHuman ThoughtEnquiry Author:Benjamin Peirce
“Take chaotic mathematics, for instance. The universe is chaos. But chaos is whimping out. There is no chaos. There are just different levels of order in the universe.” DifferentScienceOrderUniverseLevelsBuddhismMathematicsChaosInstanceChaoticDifferent LevelsOrder In The Universe Author:Frederick Lenz
“For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics.” PeopleUniverseModernDevelopmentMajorsMathematicsInsightGraspingHurdle Author:Brian Greene
“...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules, except in effect just to watch and see how they unfold.” KnowsWayScienceUniverseSimpleWonderWatchesEffectsConsequenceMathematicsCaptured Author:Stephen Wolfram
“Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave testamentary directions for the cubic eikosiheptagram to be engraved on theirs. Spirit of the Universe! wither are we drifting, and when, where, and how is all this to end?” EndsReasonMightScienceSpiritUniverseMathematicsSpheresDistinguishedDriftingCountrymenTombstoneConesEngravedCylinders Book:1854-1973 Source: 1854-1973
“The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.” WorldMindMayAbleUniverseNumbersStudyMaterialsPureEssenceMathematicsRaisesSellsPropertyContemplationVisibleDisciplePlatoShiftingTangibleMerchantsShopkeepers Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.” UniverseBlackResultsMathematicsMathHolesMathematicalZeroDividingBlack HoleNumbers And MathFunny Mathematics Author:Steven Wright
“I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.” WantHumansIdeasFactsShowsSeemsBeautifulValuesHumanityUniverseInterestingEducationMagicMathematicsPatternsMathMysteriousAgencyConvinceCaptureSurprisingClosestRevealingEnjoyableCriteriaUtilitySimilarity Author:Ian Stewart
“There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a universe and God. A god not in the world is a false god, and a world not in God is unreal. All things return to one, and one operates in all.” MenWorldLife IsUniverseReturnAll ThingsMathematicsInfinityUnrealFalse Gods Author:Nyogen Senzaki
“To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.” UniverseLanguageWrittenMathematics Author:Galileo Galilei