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
“La Física es a las Matemáticas lo que el sexo es a la masturbación.”
“Las matemáticas no mienten, lo que hay son muchos matemáticos mentirosos.”
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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.’
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
Fuente: Citado en: R. B. Lindsay, "Sobre la relación entre Matemáticas y Física," Scientific Monthly nº 59, 456 (diciembre de 1944)
Fuente: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences," Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, febrero de 1960.
“Un matemático no es digno de ese nombre si no es un poco poeta.”
Original: «Es ist wahr, ein Mathematiker, der nicht etwas Poet ist, wird nimmer ein vollkommener Mathematiker sein».
Fuente: Carta a Sofia Kovalevskaya del 27 de agosto de 1883, citada por Gösta Mittag-Leffler en el 2º Congreso Internacional de Matemáticos de París. Compte rendu du deuxième Congrès international des mathematiciens tenu à Paris du 6 au 12 août 1900, Gauthier-Villars (París), 1902, página 149.
