36 Quotes by Paul A.M. Dirac

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.

The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions.

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

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

The mathematician plays a game in which he himself invents the rules while the physicist plays a game in which the rules are provided by nature, but as time goes on it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which nature has chosen

People who equate all the different kinds of human activity to money are taking too primitive a view of things.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

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