Eugene Wigner Quotes

#1. The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and ... there is no rational explanation for it. - Eugene Wigner, 1960

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#2. It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

Eugene Wigner

#3. In science, it is not speed that is the most important. It is the dedication, the commitment, the interest and the will to know something and to understand it - these are the things that come first.

Eugene Wigner

#4. Monkey. I went along for the ride because I'd got some very safe money on him not doing it, and didn't want him coming back with fake evidence.

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#5. The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

Eugene Wigner

#6. [T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

Eugene Wigner

#7. OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?

Eugene Wigner

#8. Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

Eugene Wigner

#9. There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.

Eugene Wigner

#10. I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out, and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.

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#11. The works which this man [Joseph Banks] leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent; and yet his name will shine out with lustre in the history of the sciences.

Georges Cuvier

#12. What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth ... The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.

Paul Samuelson

#13. The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.

Eugene Wigner

#14. Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

Eugene Paul Wigner

#15. Conversion does not make us perfect, but it does catapult us into a total experience of discipleship that affects - and infects - every sphere of our living.

Richard J. Foster

#16. The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up.

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#17. Mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Eugene Wigner

#18. The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

Eugene Wigner

#19. The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

Eugene Wigner