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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
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
You see, books had been happening to me.
— Langston Hughes
I checked out the wine. Screw cap. The greatest invention since fire.
— Janet Evanovich
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.
— Paul Dirac
God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet.
— Wolfgang Paul
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
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
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
Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.
— Paul Dirac
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.
— Paul Dirac
If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.
— 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
Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.
— Paul A.M. Dirac
What passion cannot music raise or quell
— John Dryden