Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct … - Paul Dirac

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The eyes of my eyes are opened.

Paul Dirac

Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not. . . I expect that's the dominating feeling. It gets to be rather a fever. . . At age 60, when asked about his feelings on discovering the Dirac equation.

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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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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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