| "I believe: Anything at all that can be the object of scientific thought becomes dependent on the axiomatic method, and thereby indirectly on mathematics, as soon as it is ripe for the formation of a theory."
David Hilbert (Axiomatisches Denken, 1918)
"Black holes are one of only a fairly small number of cases in the history of science in which a theory was developed in great detail as a mathematical model before there was any evidence from observations that it was correct."
Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time, 1988)
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