See also perhaps the 1960 article/essay "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences":
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/the-two-culture...
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