A Spiritual Side to Mathematics?
Pat McKeague

Arts Obispo Pi Day
3.14.2010
Ramanujan
An equation for me has no meaning, unless it represents a thought of God.
Sofia Kovalevskaya
It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
1850 - 1891
What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking about mathematics. God is keeping secrets from us, and it's fun to try to learn some of the secrets. 
— Paul R. Halmos
1916 - 2006
What would a perfect search engine look like? we asked. “It would be the mind of God. Larry [Page] says it would know exactly what you want and give you back exactly what you need."
Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google
We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves
-Galileo Galilei
1564 - 1641
Built the first telescope in 1609

Discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610
If we find the answer [the unified theory], it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for we would know the mind of God.
Stephen Hawking
[W]hen Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.
— William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton
The first time an event occurs in nature it is called a miracle; later it comes to seem natural and is taken for granted.
Baal Shem Tov
1698-1760
The most important function of art and science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive.
Albert Einstein
When I'm making work, there's a point where I can't see it. And then there's that moment where you can see it—it's like it bites you—and you think it might be beautiful.
Ann Hamilton
PBS Art:21 Series
People often ask me how much this crater costs. It cost me two marriages and a relationship.
James Turrell
PBS Art:21 Series
Spirituality can refer to an ultimate reality or transcendent dimension of the world; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his or her being. Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life; such practices often lead to an experience of connectedness with a larger reality: a more comprehensive self; other individuals or the human community; nature or the cosmos; and/or the divine realm..
Spirituality is the light from the flames of life that warms our existence and connects us to each other, and the centrality of the fire that is Divinity.
Heather Mendel
Dancing in the Footsteps of Eve
I really want to see you
Really want to be with you
Really want to see you lord
But it takes so long, my lord
George Harrison
My Sweet Lord
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. Marianne Williamson
That's the way God planned it.
That's the way God wants it to be.
Billy Preston
Leads toward understanding and connectedness, and away from confusion and separateness.
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.Mary Somerville