His thoughts on that are confused too. He claims that math is fundamental to physics, but also that it's infinitely complex. That doesn't work:
1) Math is simple in the sense that you need very little space to specify the entities needed to use it.
2) But Landsburg says it's complex because you haven't really specified it until you know every mathematical truth.
3) But then physics isn't using math by that definition! It's using a tiny, computable, non-complex subset of that.
(This is discussed at length in the links I gave.)
Thought-provoking is good, but don't fall for the trap of worshipping someone for saying stuff that doesn't make sense.
A monthly thread for posting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently (or had stored in your quotesfile for ages).
ETA: It would seem that rationality quotes are no longer desired. After several days this thread stands voted into the negatives. Wolud whoever chose to to downvote this below 0 would care to express their disapproval of the regular quotes tradition more explicitly? Or perhaps they may like to browse around for some alternative posts that they could downvote instead of this one? Or, since we're in the business of quotation, they could "come on if they think they're hard enough!"