Wigner, Eugene

"Health is the foundation of all happiness."

"Adventure requires courage and a willingness to face the unknown."

"Technology should serve humanity, not the reverse."

"History is not just the past; it is a guide for the future."

"Philosophy asks the questions that science cannot answer."

"Literature teaches us to see through the eyes of others."

"Politics is the stage upon which history is played out."

"War teaches us the value of peace."

"Motivation is the fuel for action and change."

"Inspiration is the spark that ignites our potential."

"Love is the answer to all of life's questions."

"Solitude is where the soul finds itself."

"The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve."

"A physicist is someone who can look at a gas stove and see entropy increase."

"The task of the theoretical physicist is not so much to calculate what will happen, but to understand why it happens."

"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness."

"One of the most important rules of life is tolerance for ambiguity and paradox."

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

"The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, upon himself and upon his fellow scientists."

"When you have a problem with which nobody has dealt before, you can really enjoy yourself."

"I think the main purpose of science is to understand nature, not merely to control it."

"A great deal of time and effort is wasted on insoluble problems."

"We hope that as the understanding of nature progresses, the very concept of probability will become clearer."

"To learn to do physics, one must constantly revise one's preconceived notions."

"The problem is that we are unable to distinguish between the important and the unimportant."

"A physicist's job is to solve problems, not to philosophize endlessly about them."

"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem no better than I do."

"I believe that we physicists have a responsibility to society to explain what we know and don't know."

"The frontiers of the unknown are not in distant galaxies, but in the structure of matter itself."

"One must learn to be as skeptical of one's own ideas as of those of others."