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One 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
- 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…
- It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
- 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…
- It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But mathematical…
- A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
- The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method…
- 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…
- In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But…
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