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On mathematics (later quoted by David Hilbert in Naturerkennen und Logik (1930), see there):

Ich behaupte aber, daß in jeder besonderen Naturlehre nur so viel eigentliche Wissenschaft angetroffen werden könne, als darin Mathematik anzutreffen ist.

I maintain that in each particular natural science there is only as much true science as there is mathematics.

[From Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft (1786), Vorrede]

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References

• Georg Hegel, Lectures on the History of Philosophy – Kant

• Bitbol, Michel, Kerszberg, Pierre, Petitot, Jean (Eds.), Constituting Objectivity: Transcendental Perspectives on Modern Physics Springer (2009)

  • Jean Petitot, Noncommutative Geometry and Transcendental Physics, pp. 415-455

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