Quotes from Eugene Wigner

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

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

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

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