... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
Eugene WignerThe simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
Eugene Wigner[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
Eugene WignerThe unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
Eugene WignerThe world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.
Eugene Wigner