Orts #955
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.
— Eugene Wigner, in a 1960 essay, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
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Do Not Erase!
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Science and literature alike are readers of the world. And, sooner or later, both lead us to the unreadable, the boundary at which the unintelligible begins.
Nothing makes with greater certainty the earth into a hell, than man’s wanting to make it his heaven.
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