Few Quote by Ian Hacking

“Mathematics is not a science from our point of view, in the sense that it is not a natural science. The test of its…

— Richard P. Feynman

The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of…

— Carl Gustav Hempel

Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities -- absolute, indisputable…

— Henri Lebesgue

The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any…

— John Von Neumann

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

— Freeman Dyson

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Immanuel Kant

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately…

— Francis Crick

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something…

— Freeman Dyson

...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

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

— David Hilbert

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe…

— Hannah Arendt