Science Quote by Roger Bacon

[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge…

— Roger Bacon

Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.

— Brian Greene

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know…

— David Berlinski

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

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

— Roger Bacon

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be…

— Abraham Robinson

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

— Felix Klein

Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something…

— Ian Stewart

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

— Charles Darwin

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its…

— Herbert Turnbull

We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions

— Whitfield Diffie

Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.

— Richard P. Feynman