Robert A. Heinlein Quote

Mathematics can never prove anything. No mathematics has any content. All any mathematics can do is — sometimes — turn out to be useful in describing some aspects of our so-called "physical universe." That is a bonus; most forms of mathematics are as meaning-free as chess.


The Number of the Beast, Chapter V (pp. 45-46), Fawcett Columbine Books. 1980


Mathematics can never prove anything. No mathematics has any content. All any mathematics can do is — sometimes — turn out to be useful in...

Mathematics can never prove anything. No mathematics has any content. All any mathematics can do is — sometimes — turn out to be useful in...

Mathematics can never prove anything. No mathematics has any content. All any mathematics can do is — sometimes — turn out to be useful in...

Mathematics can never prove anything. No mathematics has any content. All any mathematics can do is — sometimes — turn out to be useful in...