Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Györgyi

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The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.

James Jeans · The source reads: “The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.” · The Mysterious Universe (1930)

The lively power of his mind prevailed, and forth he marched far beyond the flaming walls of the heavens, as he traversed the immeasurable universe in thought and imagination.

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

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“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

“The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.”

“The lively power of his mind prevailed, and forth he marched far beyond the flaming walls of the heavens, as he traversed the immeasurable universe in thought and imagination.”

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.”

We Value Your Opinion Comments

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.

The lively power of his mind prevailed, and forth he marched far beyond the flaming walls of the heavens, as he traversed the immeasurable universe in thought and imagination.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.