I know quite a few Pythagoreans. They wax poetic about
   mathematics in a very beautiful way.

   Look up sometime the way a mathematician describes the Elegant
   formula, or mathematical beauty. Very inspirational when they
   get caught up in it. You get a glimpse of somebody who is a true
   believer in something and it's nice to witness.

   They don't call themselves Pythagoreans of course. They're
   Mathematicians or people who are into mathematical beauty.
   Beautiful quotes - thank you smile emoticon To me, that's their
   God. They may not use the word but effectively, that's God right
   there for them.   I was there too for a bit. Really marvelous
   when one is in the midst of it, seeing all the marvelous numbers
   all around you, the formulas, the skeletal view of things.

   I see the Universe somewhat like that anyway but the
   restrictions of mathematics (just with the restrictions of the
   Scientific Method) hold me back from completely getting wrapped
   into it 100%.

   Still, they have their own beauty and each paints beautiful
   pictures.   I'd say that now I'm more enraptured in the beauty
   of "error" - the gaps, the awkward spaces where "opposites" meet
   and intermingle.

   This is the zone that fascinates me most; the areas just outside
   of being reachable by the pragmatic modes of inquiry yet not
   quite pie-in-the-sky but rather the awkward, messy zone.