A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wish to understand. (E. P. Wigner)

A mind of von Neumann's inexorable logic had to understand and accept much that most of us do not want to accept and do not even wish to understand.

E. P. Wigner

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