Biologist Quote by Auguste Comte

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the…

— Anonymous

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to…

— James Joseph Sylvester

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

— Eugene Wigner

“It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which give us the key…

— Albert Einstein

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its…

— Herbert Turnbull

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

“Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.”

— richard feynman

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

— Isaac Newton

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

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

— Roger Lewin