 | E. P. Papanoutsos - Philosophy - 1968 - 360 pages
...fathom the properties of real things? In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this: as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 28 It is worth noting how thinkers like... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1982 - 380 pages
...reality? Can human reason without experience discover by pure thinking properties of real things? . . . As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality they are not certain; and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality. He went on to explain that the axiomatization... | |
 | Perry Tilleraas - Self-Help - 1988 - 404 pages
...child inside Today I will be a wise and loving parent to the child who lives in me. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;...as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. — Albert Einstein Science gives us symbols for reality. That's all. Physics, biology, mathematics,... | |
 | David Park - Science - 1990 - 488 pages
...hypotheses of a physical nature. They may very well be false, and some probably are. Einstein remarked that "as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality they are not certain, and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality" (1954, p. 233). These considerations about... | |
 | Lesslie Newbigin - Religion - 1989 - 276 pages
...but mathematics is itself a construct of the human mind, and we should heed the words of Einstein: "As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality" (Ideas and Opinions, 1973, p. 233. I... | |
 | Javier Echeverría, Andoni Ibarra, Thomas Mormann - Mathematics - 1992 - 448 pages
...Unifying Thread in Science". Notices of the Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (1986) 716-33; here: pp. 725 and 727. far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality". Weinberg's explanation is: "Mathematics... | |
 | Frank J. Swetz - Education - 1994 - 282 pages
...— BabaHariDass(1923- ) "The essence of mathematics is its freedom." — Georg Cantor (1845-1918) "As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." —Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Man... | |
 | Georg Meggle, Ulla Wessels, Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie - Philosophy - 1994 - 1024 pages
...mathematics doesn't help. This passage is almost an anticipation of the famous saying by Einstein: 'As far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. '(Einstein 1983, 119 f.) Thus Vico, apart... | |
 | Thomas Levenson - Science - 1995 - 358 pages
...use of experience." Albert Einstein, more subtly, told the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1921 that "as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." Experience, empirical evidence, retains... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - Science - 1997 - 510 pages
...148 ...there will be no physical treatise which is not primarily mathematical, 148 Einstein, Albert ...as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain..., 256 ...nature is the realization of the simplest conceivable mathematical ideas, 148 Don't worry about... | |
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In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this: as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 
