Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future... If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply them... My own belief is that this is a more likely line of progress than trying to guess at physical pictures.
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. - Paul Dirac
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
- Paul Dirac
Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress. - Paul Dirac
Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence. - Paul Dirac
Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. - Paul Dirac
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen. - Paul Dirac
There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. - Paul Dirac
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
If there is a God, he's a great mathematician. - Paul Dirac
If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible wa… - Paul Dirac
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible wa…
A physical law must possess mathematical beauty. - Paul Dirac
A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.
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