Aberration Quote by Auguste Comte

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

— Eugene Wigner

Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific…

— Oliver Heaviside

...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

— Immanuel Kant

“The deep study of nature is the most fruitful source of mathematical discoveries. By offering to research a definite end, this study has the…

— Anonymous

It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science.…

— William Stanley Jevons

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its…

— Herbert Turnbull

The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent…

— Ada Lovelace

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans