All RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Quotes about “Mathematics”

“The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.”
“You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."”
“There was a time when the newspapers said that only twelve men understood the theory of relativity. I do not believe there ever was such a time ... On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.”
“One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.”
“Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.”
“This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.”
“We decided that 'trivial' means 'proved'. So we joked with the mathematicians: We have a new theorem- that mathematicians can prove only trivial theorems, because every theorem that's proved is trivial.”
“If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.”
“... it is impossible to explain honestly the beauties of the laws of nature in a way that people can feel, without their having some deep understanding of mathematics. I am sorry, but this seems to be the case.”
“People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding.”
“Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.”
“If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”

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