Ivar Ekeland: Quotes about the world

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“We do not discover mathematical truths; we remember them from our passages through this world outside our own.”

Ivar Ekeland

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 1, Keeping The Beat, p. 6.

Truth , World , Mathematics

“The social world is not driven by natural laws and randomness alone, as the physical world is, but also by human wills.”

Ivar Ekeland

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 8, The End of Nature, p. 162.

World , Law , Nature

“Nowadays, however, we are much more aware of the fact that the best proof in the world is worth no more than its premises: every scientific theory is transitory and provisional, in wait for a better one, and accepted only as long as the experimental results conform to its predictions.”

Ivar Ekeland

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 3, The Least Action Principle, p. 48.

World , Waiting

“The world is full, at every scale, and every scale ignores the higher and lower ones.”

Ivar Ekeland

Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 2, The Birth of Modern Science, p. 34.

World

“The optimist believes that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this might be the case.”

Ivar Ekeland

Introduction, p. 1.
The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006)

World , Fear