Dr Faustus of Modern Physics - Department of Speech, Music and ...
Dr Faustus of Modern Physics - Department of Speech, Music and ...
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Chapter 47<br />
God as Mathematician<br />
or Mathematician as God<br />
The idea the Nature has a mathematical structure is deeply rooted in Western<br />
civilization from the early Greeks over the Scholasticism to the Enlighment<br />
<strong>and</strong> Scientific Revolution into our days <strong>of</strong> the physicists dream <strong>of</strong> Gr<strong>and</strong><br />
Unification Theory <strong>and</strong> Large Hadron Collider as if God is mathematician:<br />
• If there is a God, he’s a great mathematician. (Dirac)<br />
• The laws <strong>of</strong> nature are but the mathematical thoughts <strong>of</strong> God. (Euclid)<br />
• God ever geometrizes. (Plato)<br />
• Let no one ignorant <strong>of</strong> geometry enter here. (Inscription above Plato’s<br />
Academy)<br />
• The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, <strong>and</strong><br />
limitation; <strong>and</strong> these are the greatest forms <strong>of</strong> the beautiful. (Aristotle)<br />
• For the things <strong>of</strong> this world cannot be made known without a knowledge<br />
<strong>of</strong> mathematics. (Bacon)<br />
• The bird is an instrument functioning according to mathematical laws,<br />
<strong>and</strong> man has the power to reproduce an instrument like this with all its<br />
movements. (da Vinci).<br />
• Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow<br />
on mankind. (Hobbes)<br />
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