You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. I have been known to whine that if God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes. All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. Con A great source of error is the judging of events by abstract calculations, which though geometrically true are false as they relate to the concerns of beings governed more by passions and prejudice than by an enlightened sense of their interests.
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. The way is infinite, there is nothing that can be subtracted, nothing that can be added, and yet everyone holds up to it his own childish yardstick. Truly this yard of the way you must go as well, it shall not be denied you. Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.