Science Quotes by Paul Dirac

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.

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Paul Dirac

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.

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Paul Dirac

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

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Paul Dirac

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 in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

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Paul Dirac

The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty … It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.

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Paul Dirac

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith… For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

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Paul Dirac

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 dominating feeling. It gets to be rather a fever… At age 60, when asked about his feelings on discovering the Dirac equation.

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Paul Dirac

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 his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

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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.

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.

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 in poetry, it is the exact opposite.

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith… For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

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 dominating feeling. It gets to be rather a fever… At age 60, when asked about his feelings on discovering the Dirac equation.

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 his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

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