Quote#Science & Reason
How can it be that mathematics, being, after all, a product of human…
Quote byAlbert Einstein · 1879–1955
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sidelights on Relativity (1922).
English (original)
How can it be that mathematics, being, after all, a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?
— Albert Einstein
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