Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.
Richard P. FeynmanIf all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.
Richard P. FeynmanWords can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
Richard P. FeynmanWhen you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because we're all some kind of apes that are kind of stupid working against this, trying to figure out [how] to put the two sticks together to reach the banana and we can't quite make it... So I always feel stupid. Once in a while, though, the sticks go together on me and I reach the banana.
Richard P. Feynman