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[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental…

— Gabriel Lippmann

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth,…

— Paul Davies

“Our experience teaches us that there are indeed laws of nature, regularities in the way things behave, and that these laws are best expressed…

— Brian Cox

“Much of the apparent uniformity of Nature is a uniformity of averages. Our gross senses only take cognizance of the average effect of vast…

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

— Paul Dirac

... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having…

— Richard P. Feynman

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not…

— Richard P. Feynman

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

— James Clerk Maxwell

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

— Euclid

“All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas.”

— Richard Feynman

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl