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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 if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics.

Paul Dirac
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Paul Dirac's Popular Quotes

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

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

- Paul Dirac

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

- Paul Dirac

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

- Paul Dirac

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

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If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

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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…

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A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

- Paul Dirac
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