Einstein’s views about Mathematics

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is that its propositions are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts. In spite of this, the investigator in another department of science would not need to envy the mathematician if the propositions of mathematics refered to objects of our mere imagination, and not to objects of reality.
There is another reason for the high repute of mathematics, in that it is mathematics which affords the exact natural sciences a certain measure of certainty,to which without mathematics they could not attain.