Beholder Quote by Greg Egan

“physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world,” and that “we…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical…

— Bertrand Russell

But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must…

— Lee Smolin

“Abstract mathematics combined with physics can discover and see more than any eye ever could.”

— Klaudio Marashi

“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

“The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which is why…

— Richard Dawkins

“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of how a self-aware substructure…

— Max Tegmark

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to…

— Roger Penrose

“Physics is the ultimate intellectual adventure, the quest to understand the deepest mysteries of our Universe. Physics doesn’t take something fascinating and make it…

— Max Tegmark

It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be so closely…

— Etienne Klein