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The Motion Of The Stars Over Our Heads Is As Much An Illusion As That Of The Cows, Trees And Churches That Flash Past The Windows Of Our Train.

...nature Seems Very Conversant With The Rules Of Pure Mathematics, As Our Own Mathematicians Have Formulated Them In Their Studies, Out Of Their Own Inner Consciousness And Without Drawing To Any Appreciable Extent On Their Experience Of The Outer World.

Kant, Discussing The Various Modes Of Perception By Which The Human Mind Apprehends Nature, Concluded That It Is Specially Prone To See Nature Through Mathematical Spectacles. Just As A Man Wearing Blue Spectacles Would See Only A Blue World, So Kant Thought That, With Our Mental Bias, We Tend To See Only A Mathematical World.

In This Model, The Sun Is A Very Tiny Speck Of Dust Indeed-a Speck Less Than A Three-thousandth Of An Inch In Diameter ... Think Of The Sun As Something Less Than A Speck Of Dust In A Vast City, Of The Earth As Less Than A Millionth Part Of Such A Speck Of Dust, And We Have Perhaps As Vivid A Picture As The Mind Can Really Grasp Of The Relation Of Our Home In Space To The Rest Of The Universe.

The Essential Fact Is That All The Pictures Which Science Now Draws Of Nature, And Which Alone Seem Capable Of According With Observational Facts, Are Mathematical Pictures.