Paul Dirac Quotes About Physics

• 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.

  Paul Dirac

  Escritura, Hombres, Poesía

• The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.

  Paul Dirac

  Lying, Science, Law

• Los métodos de la física teórica deberían ser aplicables a todas aquellas ramas del pensamiento en las que los rasgos esenciales son expresables con números.

  Paul Dirac

  Numbers, Theoretical Physics, Essentials

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

  Paul Dirac

  Chemistry, Physics, Mechanic

• The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.

  Paul Dirac

  Law, Too Much, Chemistry

  Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1995). “Sammlung”, p.391, Cambridge University Press

• A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

  Paul Dirac

  Book, Math, Physics

  Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1995). “Sammlung”, p.457, Cambridge University Press

• Buena parte de mi investigación en física ha consistido en no proponerse resolver ningún problema concreto, sino simplemente examinar ecuaciones matemáticas del tipo que utilizan los físicos e intentar encajarlas de forma interesante, independientemente de la aplicación que pueda tener el trabajo. Se trata simplemente de buscar matemáticas bonitas. Puede que más tarde resulte que tiene una aplicación. Entonces uno tiene buena suerte. A los 78 años.

  Paul Dirac

  Good Luck, Science, Mathematical Equations

• The only object of theoretical physics is to calculate results that can be compared with experiment... it is quite unnecessary that any satisfactory description of the whole course of the phenomena should be given.

  Paul Dirac

  Theoretical Physics, Unnecessary, Mechanic

• Aprendí a desconfiar de todos los conceptos físicos como base de una teoría. En su lugar, uno debe confiar en un esquema matemático, aunque a primera vista no parezca estar relacionado con la física. Uno debe concentrarse en conseguir matemáticas interesantes.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Sight, Interesting

• Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future... If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply them... My own belief is that this is a more likely line of progress than trying to guess at physical pictures.

  Paul Dirac

  Science, Discovery, People

  "The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature" by Paul Dirac, blogs.scientificamerican.com. May 1963.

• No veo cómo un hombre puede trabajar en las fronteras de la física y escribir poesía al mismo tiempo. Se oponen.

  Paul Dirac

  Writing, Men, Physics

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