Occupation: Physicist Birth: August 8, 1902 Death: October 20, 1984
A physical law must possess mathematical beauty..
Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant..
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers..
The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory ….
No. I had successfully solved the difficulty of finding a description of the electron which was consistent with both relativity and quantum mechanics….
Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics..
I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't h….
If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had t….
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of….
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….
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition..
What makes the theory of relativity so acceptable to physicists in spite of its going against the principle of simplicity is its great mathematical b….
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present econ….
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 ….
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say som….
If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality..
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field..
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and th….
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, a….
I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more relaxed state… I used to take long solit….
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical..