Discipline Quote by Rene Thom

Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the…

— Raymond Louis Wilder

In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when…

— Edward Witten

“Topology is that branch of mathematics which is interested in the forms of things aside from their size and shape, Two things are said…

— John D. Barrow

Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all…

— Ervin Laszlo

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

— David Malet Armstrong

The best way to be GLOBAL is to be LOCAL

— Alex Atala

“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

But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must…

— Lee Smolin

It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.

— Isadore Singer

Our external physical reality is a mathematical structure.

— Max Tegmark

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

— John Allen Paulos