Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

by Steven H. Strogatz

And it’s what Eugene Wigner meant in his essay “On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences” when he wrote, “The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.”

Whenever some aspect of nature doesn’t care about direction, circles are bound to appear.

If he had been a painter, Archimedes would have been the first cubist.