Art Quote by Jack Vance

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

— Aristotle

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

— Aristotle

Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay…

— Michio Kaku

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature…

— Edward Witten

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute…

— Annie Dillard

“Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming, that he…

— Anthony Doerr

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and…

— James Clerk Maxwell

“The oscillations-or waves-mandated by the Goldstone theorem originate in the application of symmetry operations to small domains.”

— Henning Genz

Nature imitates mathematics.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

— Diane Ackerman