All of this — living and inanimate, microscopic and cosmic — is governed by mathematical laws with apparently arbitrary constants.

无论其有无生命，微观的还是庞大的，所有这一切都明显受到任意常量的数学法则的支配。

Everything in the world we live in seems to be based on mathematical laws.

我们生活的世界上的一切似乎都基于数学定律。

Leonardo da Vinci famously said that a bird was an instrument working according to mathematical law.

列奥纳多·达·芬奇 (Leonardo da Vinci) 有句名言，鸟是一种按照数学定律工作的仪器。