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	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences 3.75 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1959 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Recollections Of Eugene P. Wigner: As Told To Andrew Szanton by Eugene P. Wigner, Andrew Szanton 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Symmetries and Reflections 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1970 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Group Theory and its Application to the Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Spectra 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1971 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Historical, philosophical, and socio-political papers: Volume 6 - Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses by Eugene P. Wigner, Jagdish Mehra (Editor), G.G. Emch (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The application of group theory to the special functions of mathematical physics it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: The Scientific Papers: Volume 3 - 1. Particles and fields / 2. Foundations of quantum mechanics by Eugene P. Wigner, Arthur S. Wightman (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Survival and the Bomb: Methods of Civil Defense liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1969	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: The Scientific Papers: Volume 5 - Nuclear Energy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Historical, philosophical, and socio-political papers: Volume 7 - Historical and biographical reflections and syntheses 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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

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“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. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.”
― Eugene Paul Wigner

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“I have known a great many intelligent people in my life. I knew Max Planck, Max von Laue, and Wemer Heisenberg. Paul Dirac was my brother-in-Iaw; Leo Szilard and Edward Teller have been among my closest friends; and Albert Einstein was a good friend, too. And I have known many of the brightest younger scientists. But none of them had a mind as quick and acute as Jancsi von Neumann. I have often remarked this in the presence of those men, and no one ever disputed me. [...] But Einstein's understanding was deeper than even Jancsi von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jancsi's brilliance, he never produced anything so original.”
― Eugene Paul Wigner, The Recollections Of Eugene P. Wigner: As Told To Andrew Szanton

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