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• Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
• I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop…
• A good deal of my research in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problem, but simply examining…
• 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…
• It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is…
• Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of…
• Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics…
• As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which…
• Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power…
• Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.
• The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty.…

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