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
Eugene Wigner quotes about
believe perfection miracle
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.
two people world
There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny Von Neumann and the rest of us.
law miracle language
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.
men honor desire
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 state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.
law consciousness mechanic
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.
law way consciousness
It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
law way physics
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.