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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.
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.

— Eugene Wigner (1960)

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
, p. 11