Quote by Max Tegmark

“The various approximations that constitute our current physics theories are successful because simple mathematical structures can provide good approximations of certain aspects of more-complex…

— Max Tegmark

“our successful theories aren’t mathematics approximating physics, but mathematics approximating mathematics.”

— Max Tegmark

Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical…

— Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

— Bertrand Russell

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.

— Lev Landau

“What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures…

— Lee Smolin

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders.

— Greg Egan

“All of our ideas in physics require a certain amount of common sense in their application; they are not purely mathematical or abstract ideas.”

— Richard Feynman

Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

— Stephen Hawking

“Looking toward the future, there are two possibilities. If I’m wrong and the MUH is false, then physics will eventually hit an insurmountable roadblock…

— Max Tegmark

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts…

— Freeman Dyson

The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.

— Christopher Pike