Eugene Wigner Image source: Nobel Foundation Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist who wrote ‘The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences’. Quotes by Eugene Wigner in Time OneThe 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.He confessed that: [F]undamentally, we do not know why our theories work so well. Hence their accuracy may not prove their truth and consistency. More about Eugene Wigner Nobelprize.org “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences” Garland Whitaker Frank Wilczek