Abstract Quote by Bertrand Russell

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

— Bertrand Russell

Physics without mathematics is meaningless.

— Edward Teller

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical…

— Bertrand Russell

When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language…

— Michael Faraday

So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language;…

— Henri Poincare

“All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas.”

— Richard Feynman

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

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

— Albert Einstein

Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations.

— Anonymous

“physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world,” and that “we…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

— Werner Heisenberg

By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they,…

— Edward Teller