Geoffrey West Quotes

As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.

I do not want to give you artificial and systematic laws, invented by man; only to bring you back under the unique laws of nature and order, which command to the heart and do not tyrannize the free will.

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired

The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion; analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable.

We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

I believe there are an infinite number of laws of the universe and that all progress or dreams achieved come from operating in a way that's consistent with them. These laws and the principles of how to operate in harmony with them have always existed. We were given these laws by nature. Man didn't and can't make them up. He can only hope to understand them and use them to get what he wants.

Isn't it amazing that there are laws of the universe that you can actually find out about, live your life according to and change the world for the better?

From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.