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The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.

We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.