Accidents Quote by Samuel Johnson

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

— Roger Lewin

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same…

— Edward Abbey

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

“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 latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

— Isaac Newton

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

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific…

— Oliver Heaviside

[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

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge…

— Henri Poincare