36 Quotes by Paul A.M. Dirac

A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.

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

If there is a God, he’s a great mathematician.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

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

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.

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.

Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.