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People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

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Paul Dirac

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

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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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