From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:   
   >In mathematics, words have meanings given to them   
   >by definitions of a /theory/.   
      
     Attributed to A. Einstein:   
      
   |As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,   
   |they are not certain; and as far as they are certain,   
   |they do not refer to reality.   
   attributed to A. Einstein.   
      
     Laws of mathematics never refer to reality; once you start to give   
     concepts a metrological or operational meaning, you're doing physics.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)