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Full Idea
Number is the ruling and self-created bond which maintains the everlasting stability of the contents of the universe.
Gist of Idea
Self-created numbers make the universe stable
Source
Philolaus (On the Cosmos (lost) [c.435 BCE], B23), quoted by (who?) - where?
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.77
| 476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
| 17008 | You have discovered that elliptical orbits result just from gravitation and planetary movement [Newton, by Leibniz] |
| 17010 | We have given up substantial forms, and now aim for mathematical laws [Newton] |
| 8656 | The laws of number are not laws of nature, but are laws of the laws of nature [Frege] |
| 8381 | The constancy of scientific laws rests on differential equations, not on cause and effect [Russell] |
| 15125 | We only know the mathematical laws, but not much else [Hawthorne] |