Method Quote by Martin Heidegger

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to…

— Anonymous

The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material…

— Hilary Putnam

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then…

— Roger Penrose

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

— Max Tegmark

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

— Anonymous

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the…

— James Joseph Sylvester

“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

Since nothing can exist that does not fulfil the conditions which render its existence possible, the different parts each being must be co-ordinated in…

— Georges Cuvier

While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest…

— William Mitchinson Hicks

The first thing to realize about physics ... is its extraordinary indirectness.... For physics is not about the real world, it is about "abstractions"…

— Anthony Standen

[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those…

— Anonymous

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation…

— Nikola Tesla