I Consider That I Understand An Equation

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

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.

Well, In The First Place, It Leads To Great Anxiety As To Whether It's Going To Be Correct Or Not ... I Expect That's The Dominating Feeling. It Gets To Be Rather A Fever... At Age 60, When Asked About His Feelings On Discovering The Dirac Equation.

One Could Perhaps Describe The Situation By Saying That God Is A Mathematician Of A Very High Order, And He Used Very Advanced Mathematics In Constructing The Universe.

As Time Goes On, It Becomes Increasingly Evident That The Rules Which The Mathematician Finds Interesting Are The Same As Those Which Nature Has Chosen.