Quote by Brandon Sanderson

“It is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.”

— Max Porter

“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful in Science,…

— Robert Turnbull

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

— richard feynman

“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

“Every time we proceed to explain some conjectural law or theory by a new conjectural theory of a higher degree of universality, we are…

— Karl Popper

“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

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of…

— Bertrand Russell

“Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.”

— Matt Haig

“the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.”

— Ernest Becker

“To satisfy themselves with this, they gladly grasp at words, especially those which denote indefinite, very abstract, and unusual concepts difficult to explain, such,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Physics, mathematics, music, painting, my politics, my love for you, my work, the star-dust of my body, the spirit that impels it, clocks diurnal,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Nature is not designed to satisfy our personal longings. Nature is what she is, and it’s a privilege merely to be privy to her…

— John Brockman