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.
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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