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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of…
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be…
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising…
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or…
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No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to…
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,…
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As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',…
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which…
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good…
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If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.
— Wolfgang Pauli
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But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned…
— Unknown Author
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Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is: 'There is no God and Dirac is His prophet.'
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called…
— Stephen Hawking
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God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet.
— Wolfgang Pauli
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In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the…
— Antonino Zichichi
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I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity…
— G. H. Hardy
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Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I…
— Paul Dirac
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Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of…
— David Gross
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