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The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

— Albrecht Durer

...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians…

— Ian Stewart

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the…

— Freeman Dyson

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

“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 profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the…

— Anonymous

It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

— Freeman Dyson

Nature imitates mathematics.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“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

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

— Klaudio Marashi