Quotes by Paul Dirac

“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, its the exact opposite.”

“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.”

“Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.”

“The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble.”

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, its the exact opposite.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in ones equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

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.

“It is more important to have beauty in one’s equation than to have them fit experiment”

“The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.”