Ernst Mach Quote

The power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Quoted in Freeman Dyson, 'Mathematics in the Physical Sciences', Scientific American, September 1964, 211, No. 3

The power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

The power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

The power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

The power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.