Characteristics Quote by John von Neumann

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon…

— Stanislaw Ulam

John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe…

— Edsger Dijkstra

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.

— Stephen Hawking

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage…

— Richard P. Feynman

“He was "a magician, a magician in the sense that he took what was given and simply forced the conclusions logically out of it,…

— Robert Leonard

The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced…

— Max Born

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a…

— George Polya

“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical…

— William R. Miller

If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance…

— Hugh Everett III

“The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method…

— Fulton J. Sheen

If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities.…

— Edward Condon