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There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.
Eugene Wigner
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Eugene Wigner
Age: 92 †
Born: 1902
Born: November 17
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
Mathematician
Nuclear Physicist
Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
University Teacher
Buda Pest
Eugene Paul Wigner
P.E. Wigner
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