• zaphod@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    To quote my former physics teacher:

    If you remove maths from physics you’re left with philosophy.

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      3 months ago

      I’m not qualified enough to approve or contest this statement, but I know for a /phisicistsfact that there was a time when great mathematicians were also great philosophers and they couldn’t conceive doing one without the other (Leibnitz or Descartes, among many others). Why I changed and exactly how, I don’t know, but I find it interesting.