Compelling Quote by Randall Munroe

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics.

— Voltaire

What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events.…

— Celia Green

[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me…

— Paul Lockhart

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Reality, while generally probable, is not always interesting.

— John Hodgman

Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the idle than…

— Franz Karl Achard

“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

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language;…

— Henri Poincare

...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock…

— Robinson Jeffers

Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of…

— William Thurston

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

— Anonymous