22 Quotes by 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 physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.

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

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

The optimist regards the future as uncertain.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

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.