Today there is a wide measure of agreement, which on the physical side of science approaches almost to unanimity, that the stream of knowledge is hea… - James Hopwood Jeans

The final truth about a phenomenon resides in the mathematical description of it; so long as there is no imperfection in this, our knowledge of the phenomenon is complete. We go beyond the mathematical formula at our own risk; we may find a model or a picture which helps us understand it, but we have no right to expect this, and our failure to find such a model or picture need not indicate that either our reasoning or our knowledge is at fault. The making of models or pictures to explain mathematical formulas and the phenomena they describe is not a step towards, but a step away from reality; it is like making a graven image of a spirit.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.