Occupation: Physicist Birth: November 17, 1902 Death: January 1, 1995
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression..
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consci….
It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness..
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice whic….
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 physi….
It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too..
OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?.
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 und….
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 ….
There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us..
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness do….
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness..
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not..
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it..
There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the conden….
... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose..
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve..
The optimist regards the future as uncertain..