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The Measure Of Greatness In A Scientific Idea Is The Extent To Which It Stimulates Thought And Opens Up New Lines Of Research.

A Termination Of One's Life Is Necessary In The Scheme Of Things To Provide A Logical Reason For Unselfishness. . . . The Fact That There Is An End To One's Life Compels One To Take An Interest In Things That Will Continue To Live After One Is Dead.

When [erwin Schrödinger] Went To The Solvay Conferences In Brussels, He Would Walk From The Station To The Hotel Where The Delegates Stayed, Carrying All His Luggage In A Rucksack And Looking So Like A Tramp That It Needed A Great Deal Of Argument At The Reception Desk Before He Could Claim A Room.

It Is More Important To Have Beauty In One's Equations Than To Have Them Fit Experiment... 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. If There Is Not Complete Agreement Between The Results Of One's Work And Experiment, One Should Not Allow Oneself To Be Too Discouraged, Because The Discrepancy May Well Be Due To Minor Features That Are Not Properly Taken Into Account And That Will Get Cleared Up With Further Developments Of The Theory.

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.