Albert Einstein Mathematics Quotations

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly disco

I don't believe in mathematics.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

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?

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater.