The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income… — 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
