Eugene Wigner Quotes

The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.

Eugene Wigner

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• We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Myself
  • Spiritual
  • Somewhat

• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Editor
  • Publisher

• All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Best
  • Golf

• The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Golf

• I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Music
  • Public
  • Festivals

• I'm not that interested in people.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Interested

• I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • America
  • Health
  • Blessed

• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • School
  • American

• To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Friends
  • Energy

• When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Think
  • Said

• His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Free
  • Deep
  • Tears

• I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Occasion
  • I Thank

• The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Imagination
  • Secret
  • Civilization

• The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Hurt

• I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

  

  Georgia Douglas Johnson
  • Hair
  • Laughter
  • Lips

• As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Certain
  • Laws

• They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Hope
  • Human Mind
  • Perversity

• I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Family
  • Control
  • Better

• It is the slow, but steady movement of the lower classes along the scale of the class system. But it has been very very slow. It took 2000 years. But it is something which is going on, and something which is almost spectacular in certain sectors today -assertion of the backward classes, of scheduled castes, of women.

  

  K. R. Narayanan
  • Movement
  • System
  • Scale

• The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.

  

  Eugene Wigner
  • Laws
  • Human Mind
  • Blamed