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> [A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of a kind that physicists use and trying to fit them together in an interesting way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/a-good-deal-of-my-research-in-physics-has-consisted-in-not-setting/)

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> [Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future... If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/just-by-studying-mathematics-we-can-hope-to-make-a-guess-at-the-kind/)

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## More by Paul Dirac

> [Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/pick-a-flower-on-earth-and-you-move-the-farthest-star/)

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> [What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/what-makes-the-theory-of-relativity-so-acceptable-to-physicists-in/)

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> [ When \[Erwin Schrödinger\] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/when-erwin-schr-dinger-went-to-the-solvay-conferences-in-brussels-he/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/i-learnt-to-distrust-all-physical-concepts-as-the-basis-for-a-theory/)

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> [If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/if-you-are-receptive-and-humble-mathematics-will-lead-you-by-the-hand/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

> [A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/a-physical-law-must-possess-mathematical-beauty/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

> [It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/it-was-not-until-some-weeks-later-that-i-realized-there-is-no-need-to/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

> [Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/quantum-mechanics-has-explained-all-of-chemistry-and-most-of-physics/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

> [If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/if-we-are-honest-and-scientists-have-to-be-we-must-admit-that/)

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> [The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/the-only-object-of-theoretical-physics-is-to-calculate-results-that/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

> [The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/the-shortage-of-buyers-which-the-world-is-suffering-from-is-readily/)

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> [I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/i-do-not-see-how-a-man-can-work-on-the-frontiers-of-physics-and-write/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

> [The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/the-measure-of-greatness-in-a-scientific-idea-is-the-extent-to-which/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

> [A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/a-great-deal-of-my-work-is-just-playing-with-equations-and-seeing/)

[Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-dirac/)

> [The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-dirac/the-fundamental-laws-necessary-for-the-mathematical-treatment-of-a/)

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