Quote by Isaac Asimov

“Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition expressed in numbers is definitely false or true. In all other relations,…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

“However, one cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.”

— Stephen Hawking

The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even…

— Anonymous

“The mathematical economists have commonly been mathematicians first and economists afterward, disposed to oversimplify the data and underestimate the divergence between their premises and…

— Frank H. Knight

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that…

— Alonzo Church

“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such…

— Bertrand Russell

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author…

— John Maynard Keynes

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In short, I do not write for mathematicians, nor as a mathematician, but as an economist wishing to convince other economists that their science…

— William Stanley Jevons

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

— John Stuart Mill

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity…

— Kenneth E. Boulding