Aesthetic Quote by Stephen Gardiner

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The whole idea of a unified universe with mathematically regular laws, that was what had been flushed down the toilet; the whole notion of…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of motion and…

— John D. Barrow

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

Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...

— W. W. Rouse Ball

For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity,…

— Francis Bacon

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

“All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas.”

— Richard Feynman

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

— Albert Einstein

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

— Heinrich Hertz

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