[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.