Biographies Quote by Paul Dirac Download Open image “A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.” — Paul Dirac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Deals Equations Giving Mathematics Science Seeing
I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I don't believe that me having a good equation with someone is going to get me work. — Tripti Dimri Copy Share Image
“I'm no mathematics whizz, but even I know that when the variables start piling up, it's time to ditch the equation and see if… — David E. Manuel Copy Share Image
The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that. — Iain Dowie Copy Share Image
Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image