3 Quotes & Sayings By Eugene Paul Wigner

Eugene Paul Wigner was an American theoretical physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 with Edward Teller for his contribution to the theory of tunnelling, and is best known for his contributions to quantum electrodynamics.

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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. Eugene Paul Wigner
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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. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning. Eugene Paul Wigner