The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“Non-Euclidean' became a byword for non-absolute knowledge. It also served to illustrate most vividly the gap between mathematics and the natural world.… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
“We honorspren mimic Honor himself. You Cryptics mimic … weird stuff?” “The fundamental underlying mathematics by which natural phenomena occur. Mmm. Truths that… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image