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"it works" may be an oversimplified phrase for what's really going in most physics people's minds (or at least in mine).
When I say "it works" I mean "It's the only thing that works to make reliable predictions thus far, and it's really, truly all I got as a means of answering the questions I'm asking, and I'm sure a better way can and will be discovered, but I'm doing this other thing, and I'm using this tool; my job is not to make tools, but to make things with these tools."
The mathematicians are our tool makers in this sense.
When I say "it works" I mean "It's the only thing that works to make reliable predictions thus far, and it's really, truly all I got as a means of answering the questions I'm asking, and I'm sure a better way can and will be discovered, but I'm doing this other thing, and I'm using this tool; my job is not to make tools, but to make things with these tools."
The mathematicians are our tool makers in this sense.