Nature Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.”

— J.M.R. Higgs

“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.”

— Hermann Hesse

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet…

— Nikolai Lobachevsky

“There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before…

— Alan Macfarlane

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

Mathematics as we know it and as it has come to shape modern science could never have come into being without some disregard for…

— David Bressoud

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even…

— Anonymous

“Yet there have been and still are mathematicians and philosophers who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely, the whole of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.”

— C.S. Lewis

“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

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

— richard feynman