"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
--Einstein, Albert (1879-1955), What I Believe.
"Without mathematics there is no art."
--Luca Pacioli
"[The universe] cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word."
--Galilei, Galileo (1564 - 1642), Opere Il Saggiatore p. 171.
"The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things."
--Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
"Where there is matter, there is geometry."
--Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630), (Ubi materia, ibi geometria.) J. Koenderink Solid Shape, Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 1990
"The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion."
--Plato
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