“The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.” NaturalLogicMathematicsEnormousRationalMysteriousCertaintyUncertaintyExplanationReasoningUsefulnessOntologyNatural Science Book:Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses Source: Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses
“There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.” NaturalDevelopmentGasPhenomenonSkepticismUnpredictableExplosionsExplosivesNatural ScienceSaturatedNatural PhenomenaCondensation Author:Eugene Wigner
“The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.” UseLawLanguageNaturalExpressionSimplicityAriseComplexityNatural Law Author:Eugene Wigner
“The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess.” BelieveDoeHardSeemsProcessNaturalPerfectionMiracleReasoningContradictionMathematicianSelectionDomainExploitsSkirtsNatural SelectionHard To BelieveRecklessness Author:Eugene Wigner
