History of Eugene Wigner

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He was famous for his gentleness and elaborate courtesy to others. Once as a student, when ants were swarming over his leg and biting him, a friend asked Wigner why he didn't kill the ants. "Because I don't know which ones are biting me," Wigner replied. In scientific meetings, both formal and informal, when someone proposed something, Wigner often answered simply "I don't understand." He was never pretentious, never afraid to seem foolish. For a man of science, he was oddly superstitious as well, hating to have 13 bills in his pocket, anxious to knock on a real piece of wood when he heard some good news.