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Eugene Wigner Quotes

1902–1995 Hungary

Hungary
Academics
Mathematicians
Nobel laureates
Physicists

Also known as: E. P. Wigner

Random Eugene Wigner quote

5 quotes

A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances.

A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wish to understand.

Where in the Schrödinger equation do you put the joy of being alive?

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.

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.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eugene Wigner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.