Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

— Euclid

The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should…

— Paul Dirac

See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her…

— Alexander Pope

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

— Rudolf Carnap

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

— John Edensor Littlewood

The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.

— Alfred North Whitehead

O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the…

— Jeremy Bentham

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most…

— Henri Poincare

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.

— Steve Winwood

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.

— Carl Sandburg

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it…

— Anonymous

...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like…

— James Joseph Sylvester