[sdenton4]

Well, you said people can't use things they don't understand.

But I'll take your expanded statement, to include riding a horse, something even older than the engine. We don't understand fully how a horse works -- biology is still a matter of seeing fragments of the whole -- but people had no problem riding and breeding them before the invention of the car, and before the discovery of genetics.

Meanwhile, understanding the math of a thing -- like stock markets, or nuclear bombs -- does not prevent its use from going badly.

Math is useful and beautiful, and a helpful tool for expanding our understanding of the world, but it is not the whole of understanding, or the sole factor in successful application of science to the world .

Signed, a mathematician.

[robrain]

I said no such thing - the comment that you just replied to is the first thing I’ve said in this thread.