Eugene Paul Wigner

1902–1995 · Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician

Topics: learning, life, mathematics

• 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.

  — Eugene Paul Wigner

• Where in the Schrödinger equation do you put the joy of being alive?

  — Eugene Paul Wigner

• In science, it is not speed that is the most important. It is the dedication, the commitment, the interest and the will to know something and to understand it — these are the things that come first.

  — Eugene Paul Wigner