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

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

When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consci…

- Eugene Wigner

OK, so the computer has understood, but what about me ?

- 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 …

- Eugene Wigner

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

- 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…

- Eugene Wigner

The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness do…

- Eugene Wigner