
“La Física es a las Matemáticas lo que el sexo es a la masturbación.”
Fuente: Maddy, Penélope. Realism in mathematics. Pg. 2 ‘Realism, then, is the view that mathematics is the science of numbers, sets, functions, etc., just as physical science is the study of ordinary physical objects, astronomical bodies, subatomic particles, and so on. That is, mathematics is about these things, and the way these things are is what makes mathematical statements true or false.’
“La Física es a las Matemáticas lo que el sexo es a la masturbación.”
Fuente: Citado por C. S. Hastings en "Memoria biográfica de Josiah Willard Gibbs, 1839-1903", National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, vol. VI, (Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1909), pág. 390. Memoria completa http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/jgibbs.pdf
Fuente: Citado en: R. B. Lindsay, "Sobre la relación entre Matemáticas y Física," Scientific Monthly nº 59, 456 (diciembre de 1944)
“La matemática es la ciencia de lo que es claro por sí mismo.”
Original: «It seems to be one of the fundamental features of nature that fundamental physical laws are described in terms of a mathematical theory of great beauty and power, needing quite a high standard of mathematics for one to understand it... One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe».
Fuente: The Tests of Time: Readings in the Development of Physical Theory. Editores Lisa M. Dolling, Arthur F. Gianelli, Glenn N. Statile. Edición ilustrada. Editor Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780691090856. p. 483. https://books.google.es/books?id=U6bVfOPfnKcC&pg=PA392&dq=0691090858,+9780691090856&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin-sPV-NzgAhUG2xoKHWmgBQkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=It%20seems%20to%20be%20one%20of%20the%20fundamental%20features%20of%20nature%20that%20fundamental%20physical%20laws%20are%20described%20in%20terms%20of%20a%20mathematical%20theory%20&f=false
“Las matemáticas no mienten, lo que hay son muchos matemáticos mentirosos.”
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“La matemática es una ciencia exacta salvo cuando te equivocas.”