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Quotes About Order

Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.
~ Hermann Weyl
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.
~ Aristotle
The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
~ Vera Kistiakowsky
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.
~ Oliver Sacks
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
~ Maria Montessori
Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
~ John William Draper
Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation
~ Alija Izetbegovic
Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.
~ Steve Winwood
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.
~ Ian Stewart
The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.
~ Stephen Hawking
Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
~ Immanuel Kant
The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
~ Francis Bacon
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.
~ Muriel Spark
Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
~ Anatole France
Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.
~ Asa Gray
Every new discovery of science is a further 'revelation' of the order which God has built into His universe.
~ Warren Weaver
There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.
~ Jacob Bronowski
The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
~ Lydia Sigourney
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
~ Albert Einstein
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
~ Lucretius