Quote by Wigner, Eugene
"The purpose of theory is not to impose order on nature, but to understand its actual patterns."
More from Wigner, Eugene
"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."
"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too."
"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."