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James Jeans

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

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The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

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The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter. . . we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

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We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

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The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

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Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

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