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Equations Quotes by Paul Dirac
- A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining mathematical equations of…
- A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.
- It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the…
- Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future…
- It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound…
- The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and…
- It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
- 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…
- I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.
- 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…
- 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…
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