“The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.”

&quot;Physics and Reality&quot; (1936), p. 61 http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1UxYzuI2oQC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PA61#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false <br class="br">1950s, Out of My Later Years (1950) <br class="br">Context: The very fact that the totality of our sense experience is such that by means of thinking (operations with concepts, and the creation and use of definite functional relations between them, and the coordination of sense experience to these concepts) it can be put in order, this fact is one which leaves us in awe, but which we shall never understand. One may say &quot;the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.&quot;... In speaking here concerning &quot;comprehensibility,&quot; the expression is used in its most modest sense. It implies: the production of some sort of order among sense impressions, this order being produced by the creation of general concepts, relations between these concepts, and by relations between the concepts and sense experience, these relations being determined in any possible manner. It is in this sense that the world of our sense experience is comprehensible. The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.