We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what numbers convey.
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
What really made me think about space and begin to think about ways to use it was Einstein's statement that there are no fixed points in space. Everything in the universe is moving all the time.
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.