James Hopwood Jeans

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

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

And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.

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

six monkeys, set to strum unintelligently on typewriters for millions of millions of years, would be bound in time to write all the books in the British Museum