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.
There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us. - Eugene Wigner
There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.
- Eugene Wigner
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. - Eugene Wigner
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of 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… - Eugene Wigner
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…
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consci… - Eugene Wigner
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consci…
OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ? - Eugene Wigner
OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?
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 … - Eugene Wigner
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 …
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression. - Eugene Wigner
The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
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… - Eugene Wigner
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…
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness do… - Eugene Wigner
The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness do…
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