It Is Quite Clear That Beauty Does

It Is Quite Clear That Beauty Does Depend On One's Culture And Upbringing For Certain Kinds Of Beauty, Pictures, Literature, Poetry And So On...but Mathematical Beauty Is Of A Rather Different Kind. I Should Say Perhaps It Is Of A Completely Different Kind And Transcends These Personal Factors. It Is The Same In All Countries And At All Periods Of Time.

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 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.

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.

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.