Paul Dirac Quotes

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• It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment. Beauty
• 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… Advanced
• What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical beauty.… Acceptable
• It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical… All
• A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. Beauty
• There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen. Communication
• A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. Book
• The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method… All
• It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go… All
• I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. Admired
• I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it. Actually Solving
• Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I expect that's the… Age
• 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… All
• God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. Beautiful
• The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the… Application
• I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to… All
• The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers. All
• 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,… Buyers
• There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present… Atom
• In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But… Ever Knew

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