
„As leis da Natureza nada mais são que pensamentos matemáticos de Deus.“
— Johannes Kepler Astrônomo e matemático alemão 1571 - 1630
citado em "O Homem Que Calculava" - página 178, de Malba Tahan, Editora Allan Alvaro Jr Santos
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
The earliest published source found on google books that attributes this to Euclid is A Mathematical Journey by Stanley Gudder (1994), p. xv http://books.google.com/books?id=UiOxd2-lfGsC&q=%22mathematical+thoughts%22+euclid#search_anchor. However, many earlier works attribute it to Johannes Kepler, the earliest located being in the piece "The Mathematics of Elementary Chemistry" by Principal J. McIntosh of Fowler Union High School in California, which appeared in School Science and Mathematics, Volume VII ( 1907 http://books.google.com/books?id=kAEUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false), p. 383 http://books.google.com/books?id=kAEUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA383#v=onepage&q&f=false. Neither this nor any other source located gives a source in Kepler's writings, however, and in an earlier source, the 1888 Notes and Queries, Vol V., it is attributed on p. 165 http://books.google.com/books?id=0qYXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA165#v=onepage&q&f=false to Plato. It could possibly be a paraphrase of either or both of the following to comments in Kepler's 1618 book Harmonices Mundi (The Harmony of the World)': "Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God" and "Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world".
Misattributed
— Johannes Kepler Astrônomo e matemático alemão 1571 - 1630
citado em "O Homem Que Calculava" - página 178, de Malba Tahan, Editora Allan Alvaro Jr Santos
— Allan Kardec codificador do espiritismo 1804 - 1869
— Maria Mitchell 1818 - 1889
Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God
Maria Mitchell: life, letters, and journals - página 185, Maria Mitchell, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Lee and Shepard, 1896 - 293 páginas
— Jules Verne escritor francês 1828 - 1905
Variante: Podemos enfrentar as leis humanas, mas não podemos resistir às leis naturais.
— Galileu Galilei físico, matemático, astrônomo e filósofo florentino 1564 - 1642
Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe.
Galileu Galilei, como citado no filme "Donald in Mathmagic Land" - Donald no País da Matemágica (1959)
Atribuídas
Variante: A matemática é o alfabeto com qual, Deus escreveu o universo.
— Paul Klee professor académico alemão 1879 - 1940
citado em "Diário" (março de 1906), # 759, The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
— Friedrich Nietzsche filósofo alemão do século XIX 1844 - 1900
— Clive Staples Lewis Apologeta e novelista cristão 1898 - 1963
Deus