Top 21 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
Max Tegmark
#2. You say just, Ellis says flatly. There is no just with Edward Monkford. Nothing's more important to him than getting his own way.
J.P. Delaney
#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. You know I'm not a girl who cares to see Or gives a damn what anyone thinks of me I go down hard, I stand my ground But whenever you come around I'm helpless Baby, I don't stand a chance
Emma Chase
#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. I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.
Alice Munro
#8. OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?
Eugene Wigner
#9. Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
Eugene Wigner
#10. 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
#11. I love you for your courage and your honestly. I love you for seeing things in me that aren't there.
Heather Sunseri
#12. Never. Till my last breath I will work. To retire there is only one place-the cremation ground.
Dhirubhai Ambani
#13. It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.
Eugene Wigner
#14. At times, it can feel like the loneliest place on Earth, because it's just us. Alone with our unanswered prayers
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#15. 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
#16. 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
#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
#20. Because I am well read, I know what a terrible cliche it is to shout, "I *hate* you. I never *asked* to be born," so I refrain.
Caitlin Moran
#21. We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.
John Flavel
