I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.