How true is this?

Have you never met someone with a science degree?

Based on this post alone, I'd consider you a dumb nihilist. Not a philosophical nihilist who built the conclusion logically, but rather the standard INTJ personality type who gets off on the fact that since he can't matter, no one can.

Mathematics is 100% fiction, impossible without Human Symbol.

>you can't actually know anything

There is almost no one, famous or otherwise, that said anything close to this. It's usually tangentially mentioned in some major Philosophic works in regards to Materialist sperglords and your utter failure of gaining insight into anything at all.

Also:

>scientist to do list
>meaningless material formalities that would change nothing

Discover the secrets of that feeling in your throat after reading this comment.

This book is about mathematics and also is by the author of Alice in Wonderland. It has an element of sardonic humor.

Is it a 'technical book' or a 'theoretical' work?

Where does the idiocy end? I read mathematical and economics texts all the time. Either one of these can be almost completely words based like "Theoretical Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans" by Gerald Massey or absolutely filled to the brim with propositions and postulates like any work that is Elements-esque

Yes, but that opinions validity and value to most people is predicated on the fact that they hold a PhD, not what the PhD was in. It's like asking a master plumber about medical advice, yes they know a lot about shit going through pipes, but that's not going to help you with your IBS.

I agree with one part of this. People go insane for Nye when he has a bach. in ME. The reason they put him at the front is because the generation of minds they are trying to conquer learned their basic science from him and think he's an authority.

>your utter failure of gaining insight into anything at all.
Come now user, if you take even a utilitarian view of "truth" you know as well as I do that's simply not true.

>There is almost no one, famous or otherwise, that said anything close to this.

Pyrrho and the classical Skeptic tradition.

Nihilism and Existentialism deny the existence of truth to the extent that nothing meaningful can be 'known'.

The attitude does exist, and it hampers progress.

Philosophers are the smartest people though.

Ethics is the only course where no matter how hard I studied, thought, read, I still couldn't ace simple multiple choice tests

I still look at Hume from time to time and wonder how the fuck is there 4 types of moral skepticism? And artistotle's tree, what really is his point?

This shit makes even the most convolution science seem trivial in comparison