In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac quote God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world
Paul Dirac quote In such a theory a bare electron would be inconceivable, since one cannot imagine the end of a piece of string without having the string
Paul Dirac quote It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress
Paul Dirac quote The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers
Paul Dirac quote 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 economic paradoxes confronting the world
Paul Dirac quote Biography
English physicist, 1902-1984
