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.
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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
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
Paul Dirac
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.
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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
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Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
Paul Dirac
The electric field in this picture from discrete Faraday lines of force, which are to be treated as physical things, like strings.
Paul Dirac
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