The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
“The present writer had occasion, some time ago, to call attention to the succession of layers of "laws of nature," each layer containing more… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact,… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
