Occupation: Physicist Birth: August 8, 1902 Death: October 20, 1984
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research..
I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going ….
I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it..
Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passag….
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and so on...But m….
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He ….
I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking..
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but….
When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying….