When [erwin Schrödinger] Went To The Solvay

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

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.

Living Is Worthwhile If One Can Contribute In Some Small Way To This Endless Chain Of Progress.

I Think It Is A Peculiarity Of Myself That I Like To Play About With Equations, Just Looking For Beautiful Mathematical Relations Which Maybe Don't Have Any Physical Meaning At All. Sometimes They Do. At Age 60.

The Only Object Of Theoretical Physics Is To Calculate Results That Can Be Compared With Experiment... It Is Quite Unnecessary That Any Satisfactory Description Of The Whole Course Of The Phenomena Should Be Given.