That wind I used to hear it swelling
with joy divinely deep;
You might have seen my hot tears welling,
but rapture made me weep.
Emily Brontë
Pierre Pellegrini
Where there is life there is a pattern, and where there is a pattern there is mathematics. Once that germ of rationality and order exists to turn a chaos into a cosmos, then so does mathematics. There could not be a non-mathematical Universe containing living observers.
- John D. Barrow, The Artful Universe (1995)