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Science Quotes by Paul Dirac
- As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.
- The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an…
- I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.
- 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…
- When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all…
- 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…
- 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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