„Therefore, the mathematical forms that represent the elementary particles will be solutions of some eternal law of motion for matter.“

— Werner Heisenberg

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„The elementary particles in Plato's Timaeus are finally not substance but mathematical forms. "All things are numbers" is a sentence attributed to Pythagoras.“
— Werner Heisenberg
„In modern quantum theory there can be no doubt that the elementary particles will finally also be mathematical forms“
— Werner Heisenberg
„The law of causality is no longer applied in quantum theory and the law of conservation of matter is no longer true for the elementary particles.“
— Werner Heisenberg
„The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.“
— Albert Einstein
„The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere into its components. The complexity of the living things has to be present within the material [from which they are derived] or in the laws“
— Kurt Gödel
„This idea is that laws which purport to be statements of what actually occurs are statistical in character as distinct from so-called dynamic laws that are abstract and mathematical, and disguised definitions. Recognition of the statistical nature of physical laws was first effected in the case of gases when it became evident that generalizations regarding the behavior of swarms of molecules were not descriptions or predictions of the behavior of any individual particle. A single molecule is not and cannot be a gas. It is consequently absurd to suppose that a scientific law is about the elementary constituents of a gas. It is a statement of what happens when a large number of such constituents interact with one another under certain conditions.“
— John Dewey