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Paul Dirac

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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


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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.


— Paul Dirac


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


— Paul Dirac


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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


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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


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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


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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


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" He also did work that forms the basis of modern attempts to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics. This work does not refer to any other writings then available on quantum mechanics. While lecturing later in life Dirac always insisted on calling the former "Fermi statistics".

Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory. " He also did work that forms the basis of modern attempts to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics. : /dɪˈræk/ di-RAK; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.

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