Accounts Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

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

“The behaviour of physical, nonbiological objects is so simple that it is feasible to use existing mathematical language to describe it, which is why…

— Richard Dawkins

“The conclusion is that the physical theory and the mathematical theory of science are valid methods but not valid philosophies. Facts need interpretation the…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are…

— Kevin Michel

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent…

— William Cecil Dampier

“arguing that our external physical reality is a mathematical structure,”

— Max Tegmark

In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects…

— Philip J. Davis

“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

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“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

I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is…

— Nicolaas Bloembergen

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the…

— James Joseph Sylvester