The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
Eugene WignerThe 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.
Eugene Wigner... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
Eugene Wigner[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
Eugene Wigner