“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that if such and such a proposition is true of anything then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true, and not to mention what the anything is, of which it is supposed to be true. Both of these points would belong to applied mathematics…. Thus, mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor what we are saying is true.”

(Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic, 1957, pp. 70-71)

“In my (Einstein’s) scientific activity, I am always hampered by the same mathematical difficulties, which make it impossible for me to confirm or refute my general relativist field theory.”

(Einstein November 25, 1948, quoted in Letters to Solovine, translated by Wade Baskin from the French Lettres à Maurice Solovine, 1987, p. 111)

Russell is right. You can blind anyone with maths. Einstein knew that his maths-only theory was hardly a ‘law’ or ‘axiom’ and he was ‘hampered’ by his own tautological maths. Einstein could not prove his own theory as he admits in the quote above. His theology, preached from a soap box in the village square, had precious little mechanical support and was based on forced answers from largely circular calculus equations.  More here