Absolutes Quote by Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

— Paul Feyerabend

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible help of…

— Vasco Ronchi

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

There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood…

— Henry Augustus Rowland

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

— Felix Klein

The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).

— Carl Sagan

Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and…

— Brian Schmidt

Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative…

— Alfred Korzybski