Books Quote by Karen Armstrong

Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single…

— Steven Pinker

“Newton showed that the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

— Galileo Galilei

“He had long ago given up trying even to understand the unsolvable mathematics of human relationships, let alone to participate.”

— George R.R. Martin

“he believed that all language, except for the most basic and elementary, was metaphorical, and even the highly desiccated metaphors are not verbal algebra.”

— Andrew Davison

“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.”

— John Green

“The first successes were such that one might suppose all the difficulties of science overcome in advance, and believe that the mathematician, without being…

— Joseph Bertrand

“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.”

— Alexander Theroux

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

— Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza

“Really crazy stuff. I think they call it abstract math. What he created was usually beyond me, even conceptually.”

— Douglas E. Richards

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

— richard feynman