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Mathematics 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.
- 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 if…
- 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…
- Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
More Mathematics Quotes
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
- I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole