Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence.


Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematical Imagination, Chapter 1 (p. 2), Basic Books. 1995


Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence.

Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence.

Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence.

Mathematics is to nature as Sherlock Holmes is to evidence.