Jean Philippe Rameau Quotes

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Music is really, really mathematical.

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

All science requires mathematics.

Nature is written in mathematical language.

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

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

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

When I was done with high school, I knew that music was really important to me and I knew I didn't want to be a cellist, but I wasn't really sure if I wanted to be a composer, or think about - I was just interested in the ideas behind music, I was interested in mathematics.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

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

There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.

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.

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

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.