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Etymology of 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of X'


The oldest mention I found was 'The unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics' from Eugene Wigner in 1960 but is it older ?


  👤 ahazred8ta Accepted Answer ✓
Google books says that he was the first published source of the phrase "unreasonable effectiveness" in his lecture of May 1959.