Failing Quote by Francis Bacon

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

— Anonymous

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

— Ian Stewart

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

— David Malet Armstrong

We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the…

— Alexander Markovich Polyakov

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

— David Hilbert

Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

— Terence McKenna

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

— Joseph Fourier

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has…

— Paul Dirac

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

— Albert Einstein

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

— Roger Lewin

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any…

— John Von Neumann