Dirac Quotes: top 36 famous quotes about Dirac

Dirac Quotes & Sayings

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And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more. — Elton John

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. — Paul Dirac

Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics. — Paul Dirac

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress. — Paul A.M. Dirac

Faith is your guide in the absence of knowledge. — Toba Beta

It is pointless to build your life on a foundation of illusions — Sunday Adelaja

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. — Paul Dirac

A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac

You gain more experience in difficult situations — Sunday Adelaja

God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet. — Wolfgang Paul

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. — Willis Lamb

How alone this was going to be. — Joyce Carol Oates

Hardships are hills of mountains, which must be overcome for the highest accomplishments. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. — Paul Dirac

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. — Paul Dirac

People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things. — Paul A.M. Dirac

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it. — Paul Dirac

Sometimes everything changes and you're left wondering how it happened and where you could have down shifted. — Shey Stahl

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. — Paul Dirac

So this is happiness, that journeyman. — Arthur Lynch

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment. — Paul Dirac

There is no right or wrong, there is only event. We see them with right mindset or wrong mindset. — Debasish Mridha

If my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen - small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss. — Matthew Norman

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. — Paul A.M. Dirac

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

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

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star. — Paul A.M. Dirac

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. — Paul Dirac

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

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. — Greg Kinnear

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress. — Paul A.M. Dirac

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. — Barbara Kingsolver

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky