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==Empirical laws and initial conditions== {{blockquote|Every empirical law has the disquieting quality that one does not know its limitations. We have seen that there are regularities in the events in the world around us which can be formulated in terms of mathematical concepts with an uncanny accuracy. There are, on the other hand, aspects of the world concerning which we do not believe in the existence of any accurate regularities. We call these initial conditions.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Wigner, Eugene P.|author-link=Eugene Wigner|year=1960|title=The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Richard Courant lecture in mathematical sciences delivered at New York University, May 11, 1959|url=https://hep.physics.utoronto.ca/~orr/wwwroot/JPH441/Wigner_Math.pdf|journal=Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics|volume=13|issue=1 |pages=1β14|bibcode=1960CPAM...13....1W|doi=10.1002/cpa.3160130102|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212111540/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html|archive-date=2021-02-12}}</ref>}}
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