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Eugene Paul Wigner
(17 Nov 1902 - 1 Jan 1995)
Hungarian-American physicist.
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Science Quotes by Eugene Paul Wigner (2)
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
As quoted by Colin Pittendrigh (1971). In George C. Beakley, Ernest G. Chilton, Introduction to Engineering Design and Graphics (1973), 40
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The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
— Eugene Paul Wigner
Quoted in Robert J. Scully, The Demon and the Quantum (2007), 191.
