Stephen Batty

“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.”
― Hermann Weyl

“Einstein's life ended.....with a demand on us for synthesis.”
― Wolfgang Pauli

“That is my goal. Time and timelessness are connected.”
― Arvo Pärt

“In the earlier part of this essay I made the remark that Pantheism as a religion is almost entirely modern. The context, however, clearly showed what was meant; for several pages have been occupied with indications of the ideas and teaching of individual Pantheists from Xenophanes to Spinoza. But we do not usually take much note of a religion that is confined to one or two men in an age. If it dies out we treat it merely as a curiosity, or an intellectual puzzle, like the dreams of Jacob Boehme, or the atheistic ecclesiasticism of Comte. But, if it afterwards shows symptoms of unexpected adaptation to the mental and moral conditions of a newer world, and if, on account of this adaptation, it gains a hold on men who are neither philosophers nor metaphysicians, but only religious, it demands our consideration on far other grounds than those of intellectual curiosity.”
― J. ALLANSON PICTON, Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern