Eugene Wigner
Eugene Wigner
Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner, was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth17 November 1902
CountryUnited States of America
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Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.
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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 our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.
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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.
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It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.
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It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences