"The way he had designed it, the enormous structure was to be a grand harmony of opposite forces....'A force at rest is at rest because it is balanced by some other force or by its own reaction,' he had once written....He considered mathematics a spiritual perception, as well as the highest science, and since all engineering questions were governed by 'simple mathematical considerations,' the suspension bridge was a 'spiritual or ideal conception.'"
-The Great Bridge, David McCullough
-The Great Bridge, David McCullough