Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

The remarkable insights that science affords us into the intelligible workings of the world cry out for an explanation more profound than that which itself can provide. Religion, if it is to take seriously its claim that the world is the creation of god, must be humble enough to learn from science what that world is actually like. The dialogue between them can only be mutually enriching.

The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.