Eugene Wigner Quotes

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Eugene Wigner

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• If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Brother
  • Year
  • Filmmaker

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Hallmark

• I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Moments

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Career
  • Early

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Design

• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Happy
  • Gun
  • Riding

• Life is a thread that someone entangled.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life

• Kinchit nahin bhaybhit main, Kartavya path par jo bhi mile, Yeh bhi sahi woh bhi sahiEnglish translation:I am not afraid of defeat and victory, whatever comes my way of duty, I will accept it, because this is true and that is true.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • True
  • Path
  • Victory

• The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Family
  • Father
  • Small

• For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• I have carried the burden of being a role model for some time. And that's great. The body of work I've done has afforded me that opportunity.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• First-round matches are always tough.

  

  Angelique Kerber

• I've always loved the song 'It Might as Well Be Spring'.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Song
  • Spring

• 'What's the Use' is normally done with all the women onstage with Julie. Sometimes it's staged as a 'lay at my feet, dear children, and let me tell you the ways of life.' We felt like that wasn't really what was going on.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Life
  • Women
  • Children

• As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Opportunity
  • Economic
  • Citizens

• But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Communicate
  • Arrangement
  • Inventions

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Science
  • Earth

• Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

  

  Michael Chabon
  • Remember
  • Broken
  • Schooling

• ... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

  

  Eugene Wigner
  • Science
  • Purpose
  • Rules