The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

"the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and that there is no rational explanation for it."


"he miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning."

Eugene Wigner

This is the Truth!

"the truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators" M. Crawford

what a great quote.....when commitment, passionate concern and taking responsibility is on the line

recognising valuable information!

Saturated with information, it is becoming increasingly more difficult  first to come up with new ideas , second to recognise value in the data passing by.

In that context i found this quote published on architects website (RiceFergusMiller),  which says:

"An idea is the fundamental difference between experimentation and simply playing - it is the thing that differentiates the Laboratory from the Playground."

perfection

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" 

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

nothing is impossible

“When someone comes up with a radical new idea, the conversation always turns to why it can’t be done. And generally speaking, many of those reasons are true. But if you’re prepared to throw out the whole context and start again from scratch, all the reasons why something can’t be done just fall away.”

Hugo Spowers

love it!

"you are because you have to be"

"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." - Carl Sagan

"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true." - Carl Sagan

THE GREASY HANDS PREACHERS

The Greasy Hands Preachers is a feature documentary film about ...shall we say...a special breed. A project by Clement Beauvais and Arthur de Kersauson, which is in production and i can not wait to see.

They have been posting teasers that i have been seeing and i could not miss this  quote by Saint Francis of Assissi which must date back to the begging of 13th century and says: 

 "He who works things with his hands is a laborer,
   He who works with his hands and his mind is a craftsman,
   He who works with his hands, his head and his heart is an artist." 

                                                                                                St Francis of Assissi