Casts Quote by Vasco Ronchi

Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an exact science.…

— William Stanley Jevons

Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt…

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

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

— Paul Feyerabend

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to…

— Anonymous

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Benjamin Peirce

The one [the logician] studies the science of drawing conclusions, the other [the mathematician] the science which draws necessary conclusions.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if…

— Karl Popper

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton