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

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In this world there are two great sources of strength. One rests with those who are not afraid to kill. The other rests with those who are not afraid to love.

Paul Dirac

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

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

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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

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

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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. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say. . . something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand. Commenting to him about the poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote.

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The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.

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