The difficulty that attends mathematical symbolism is the accompanying tendency to take the symbol as exhaustively descriptive of reality.

— Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Einstein and the Universe (1922)

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=orcvAQAAMAAJ

From his preface to Charles Nordmann's 1922 popular exposition of Einstein's theory.

Topics: mathematics