“But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.”— René Descartes Related Quotes “They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.”— Margot Lee Shetterly “I don’t believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won’t persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.”— Janna Levin “Music is the melody that longs to be heard by someone who can appreciate it.”— Suzette Vearnon