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Eugene Wigner Quotes: The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.
         

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.


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OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?

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The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

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The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.



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It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.



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