Mathematics Quote by Jim Baggott

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not…

— Albert Einstein

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

— Anonymous

“The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. This may seem a paradox, since it is the physicist who deals with the…

— G.H. Hardy

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality.

— Martin Gardner

“Through the judicious employment of symbols, diagrams, and calculations, mathematics enables us to acquire significant facts about extremely significant things (universal laws, even), not…

— G. Arnell Williams

“The world is true on the basis of ‘theory of relativity’; it is not true on the basis of ‘reality’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I don’t know if math is real in the sense that it’s woven into the fabric of the cosmos, or if it’s something that…

— Rivka Galchen

“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

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

— Richard P. Feynman

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

— James Clerk Maxwell

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

— Paul Feyerabend