22 Quotes by Eugene Wigner

It's nice the know the computer understands the situation, but I would like to understand it too.

The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

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.

[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.

It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

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

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.

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.