Paul Davies Quotes

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever; it also applies to all territories, whatever their economic or political regime.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

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

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

A mathematical equation stands forever.

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.

There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech.

I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.

There's math, and everything else is debatable!