“If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand.” — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.” — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. — Paul Dirac Copy Share
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac Copy Share
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share
