Great Mathematician Quotes by Eugene Wigner

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Eugene Wigner has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• [T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
• When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness…
• The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
• The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised…
• The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift…
• The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young…
• It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
• Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long,…
• The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift…
• The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead…
• There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.

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