The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

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

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 optimist regards the future as uncertain.

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

[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.