Discovery Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

— Janos Bolyai

Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow.

— Robert Henry Newell

Nature imitates mathematics.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.

— e. e. cummings

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not…

— William James

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of…

— James G. Frazer

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

— Edward Teller

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

— Joseph Fourier

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

— richard feynman

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

— Charles Darwin

Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.

— Flora Thompson