Plato Quotes

For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.

God ever geometrizes.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

Order is heaven's first law.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe. . . The impression of design is overwhelming.

For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this with them, that they negate the principle of randomness in the world.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.