One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.” quote by Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3c4/paul-dirac-13270_argument_when-erwin-schr-dinger-went-to-the-solva_191459.jpg)
