Paul A.M. Dirac Quotes

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

Paul A.M. Dirac

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

Paul A.M. Dirac

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

Paul A.M. Dirac

#4. In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

Paul A.M. Dirac

#5. 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.

Paul A.M. Dirac

#6. The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.

Paul A.M. Dirac

#7. 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.

Paul A.M. Dirac

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

Paul A.M. Dirac