Atoms Quote by Herbert Turnbull

“...The pages and pages of complex, impenetrable calculations might have contained the secrets of the universe, copied out of God's notebook. In my imagination,…

— Yoko Ogawa

“even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric,…

— Stanisław Lem

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our…

— Karl Pearson

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

— Paul Dirac

Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest…

— Edward Frenkel

“Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies the mysteries…

— James Luceno

“God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.”

— Paul Dirac

The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of…

— James Joseph Sylvester

“In my imagination, I saw the creator of the universe sitting in some distant corner of the sky, weaving a pattern of delicate lace…

— Yōko Ogawa

“Perhaps everything was connected to everything, in a discernible if nebulous way, and if one might only trace the fibers and filaments of those…

— Tom Robbins

“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

“Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it need only patience to ransack; it is…

— James Joseph Sylvester