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 miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. — 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
