noncuriousobserver (@noncuriousobserver)

Henri Poincaré is a mathematician beyond the reach of common university professors of mathematics. The following quote must be his itroduction into a talk or article about the presence of beauty in science. Yes, there is beauty in science, and Poincaré clearly distinguishes it from the beauty of nature. "If nature weren't beautiful, it wouldn't be worthy to be known; life wouldn't be worthy to be lived. Of course, here I am not talking about the beauty of qualities and appearances, not because I ignore them, most certainly I do not, but because that beauty has nothing to do with science. I want to talk about that intimate beauty which springs from the harmonious order of its parts and which can be grasped by pure intelligence". But, if beauty reflects the divine intelligence of the Creator, as it is often said, the beauty of the mathematics of science could not adequately reflect the divine intelligence of the Creator precisely because mathematical beauty is only the beauty of the intellect which cannot include in itself the beaty of the heart. And that sounds to me like a good point to argue that mathematical physics cannot grasp the inherent intelligence of creation, in other words, even in principle, it cannot grasp the essence of nature.