Dirac Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

• If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet. — Wolfgang Pauli
• But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and… — Nicholas Metropolis
• Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is: 'There is no God and Dirac is His prophet.' — Wolfgang Pauli
• Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,… — Stephen Hawking
• God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet. — Wolfgang Paul
• In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle… — Antonino Zichichi
• I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,… — G. H. Hardy
• Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez
• 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… — Paul Dirac
• Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation. — David Gross

Who Wrote These Dirac Quotes

9 authors contributed a total of 10 Dirac Quotes as follows:

• 2 Dirac Quotes by Wolfgang Pauli
• 1 Dirac Quote by G. H. Hardy
• 1 Dirac Quote by Luis Walter Alvarez
• 1 Dirac Quote by Paul Dirac
• 1 Dirac Quote by David Gross
• 1 Dirac Quote by Nicholas Metropolis
• 1 Dirac Quote by Stephen Hawking
• 1 Dirac Quote by Wolfgang Paul
• 1 Dirac Quote by Antonino Zichichi