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“A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.”

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Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

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What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical…

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When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying…

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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…

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If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how…

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A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

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It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could…

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Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.

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If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no…

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The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description…

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I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in…

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