“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.”
As quoted in The Cosmic Code : Quantum Physics As The Language Of Nature (1982) by Heinz R. Pagels, p. 295; also in Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac : Reminiscences about a Great Physicist (1990) edited by Behram N. Kursunoglu and Eugene Paul Wigner, p. xv
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theoretical physicist 1902–1984Related quotes
“If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty”
Conversation with Einstein, as quoted in Bittersweet Destiny: The Stormy Evolution of Human Behavior by Del Thiessen
Context: If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, axioms, etc.—to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are "true," that they reveal a genuine feature of nature... You must have felt this too: The almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared.
As quoted in John Clute, "Scores" http://www.strangehorizons.com/2010/20100118/clute-c.shtml, in Strange Horizons (18 January 2010)
Galileo's Dream (2009)
“Beautiful, moral world created in an angelic way.”
in Greek: "Όμορφος κόσμος, ηθικός, αγγελικά πλασμένος".
Sarcastic tone; from his poem "to Francesca Freiser"
“Beautiful, moral world, created in an angelic way.”
in Greek: "Όμορφος κόσμος, ηθικός, αγγελικά πλασμένος".
Sarcastic tone; from his poem "to Francesca Freiser"
Boulder, Colorado August 28, 1971 I Am a Road
1970s
“I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.”
Mr. Wharton in Ch. IV
Esther: A Novel (1884)
The Evening and the Morning and the Night
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)
Source: The Development of Mathematics (1940), p. 9