God Used Beautiful Mathematics In Creating The

Hopes Are Always Accompanied By Fears, And, In Scientific Research, The Fears Are Liable To Become Dominant.

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.

What Makes The Theory Of Relativity So Acceptable To Physicists In Spite Of Its Going Against The Principle Of Simplicity Is Its Great Mathematical Beauty. This Is A Quality Which Cannot Be Defined, Any More Than Beauty In Art Can Be Defined, But Which People Who Study Mathematics Usually Have No Difficulty In Appreciating.

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.

I Think It Is The General Rule That The Originator Of A New Idea Is Not The Most Suitable Person To Develop It, Because His Fears Of Something Going Wrong Are Really Too Strong... At Age 69.