Accounts Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

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

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to…

— Anonymous

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not…

— Sigmund Freud

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

— Gabriel Marcel

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

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

All science requires mathematics.

— Roger Bacon

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

— Immanuel Kant

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

— William Stanley Jevons

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

— David Hilbert

All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

— Oliver Goldsmith