He was regarded by his friends and colleagues as unusual in character. Albert Einstein said of him, "This balancing on the dizzying path between genius and madness is awful". His mathematical brilliance, however, means he is regarded as one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century.
"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."
"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
"Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star."
"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."
"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."
"The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods."
"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."
"I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value."
"The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers."
"There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world."
"It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress."
"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."
A neuroscientist’s sprawling survey of the creative mind takes in both William Blake and physicist Paul Dirac ... To all that the world presents to our senses, the mind effortlessly adds things that will not and cannot ever be ... ....
James Clerk Maxwell, one of the founders of magnetic theory, thought he had killed off the idea for good, but decades later Paul Dirac brought it back, showing monopoles’ existence could explain ...
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“At the beginning, I had no expectation that I would still be alive when it happened.” ... But inspired by quantum physicist Paul Dirac, who had attended the same school, he went on to specialise in theoretical physics ... They had two sons ... ....
“At the beginning, I had no expectation that I would still be alive when it happened.” ... But inspired by quantum physicist Paul Dirac, who had attended the same school, he went on to specialise in theoretical physics ... They had two sons.
Higgs described himself as “incompetent” in the physics laboratory at school and at first preferred maths and chemistry. But inspired by quantum physicist Paul Dirac, who had attended the same school, he went on to specialise in theoretical physics ... .
He was 94 ...Modest Man ... Higgs, who suffered from asthma and was partly schooled at home by his mother, lived in Birmingham and Bristol, where he attended Cotham Grammar School until 1946 and developed an interest in the work of physicist Paul Dirac ... .
He was 94 ...Download Now! ... Higgs, who suffered from asthma and was partly schooled at home by his mother, lived in Birmingham and Bristol, where he attended Cotham Grammar School until 1946 and developed an interest in the work of physicist Paul Dirac.
The very idea of Tallahassee was ambitious from the beginning. Two hundred years ago, on March 4, 1824, Gov ... There have always been big dreams here, though ... Paul Dirac’s theories changed our understanding of quantum physics and earned him a Nobel Prize.
Seizing the opportunity ... The first is that their cause is unknown ... At a certain point, the burst's surge of radio photons may meet resistance from a sea of "virtual" electrons and positrons which British physicist Paul Dirac predicted in 1930 ... S. D ...DOI.
Artist’s impression of a record-breaking FastRadioBurst, passing from a distant host galaxy to the Milky Way...ESO/M ... At a certain point, the burst’s surge of radio photons may meet resistance from which British physicist Paul Dirac predicted in 1930.
Seizing the opportunity ... The first is that their cause is unknown ... At a certain point, the burst’s surge of radio photons may meet resistance from a sea of “virtual” electrons and positrons which British physicist Paul Dirac predicted in 1930 ... .
