Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation… But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image