[Pythagoras's Trousers God, Physics, and the Gender War] [Author: Wertheim, Margaret] [January, 1997]

So Pythagoras believed that the numbers were literally gods and that when we found mathematical relationships inherent in the world around us, that what we were discovering was as it were the true reality behind the material phenomenon.

And the reason this is what I proposed in my book, Pythagoras' Trollers, is because what happened was that Platonism or Pythagoreanism was crystallized.

So Galileo said, what mathematics is the language in which the universe was written?

So Christianity and the idea that God is a mathematical creator is foundational to the scientific revolution, which is why claims that science and religion are fundamentally opposed is just absolute nonsense.

When I set out to write my book, I had no intention of writing about religion. I wanted to write a book about the cultural history of physics because I wanted to explain physics to my friends.