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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.

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

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.

A Good Deal Of My Research In Physics Has Consisted In Not Setting Out To Solve Some Particular Problem, But Simply Examining Mathematical Equations Of A Kind That Physicists Use And Trying To Fit Them Together In An Interesting Way, Regardless Of Any Application That The Work May Have. It Is Simply A Search For Pretty Mathematics. It May Turn Out Later To Have An Application. Then One Has Good Luck. At Age 78.

I Learnt To Distrust All Physical Concepts As The Basis For A Theory. Instead One Should Put One's Trust In A Mathematical Scheme, Even If The Scheme Does Not Appear At First Sight To Be Connected With Physics. One Should Concentrate On Getting Interesting Mathematics.