Paul Dirac on Art
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Paul Dirac, catalogued under art, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Paul Dirac, entry #169625: "P. A. M. Dirac Speaking with Friedrich Hund on Symmetry in Relativity, Quantum mechanics and Physics of Elementary Particles Filmdokumente zur Zeitgeschichte, G209; Youtube link t…"
Attributed to Paul Dirac, entry #54455: "My research work was based in pictures. I needed to visualise things and projective geometry was often most useful e.g. in figuring out how a particular quantity transforms under …"
3 Quotes by Paul Dirac on Art
"P. A. M. Dirac Speaking with Friedrich Hund on Symmetry in Relativity, Quantum mechanics and Physics of Elementary Particles Filmdokumente zur Zeitgeschichte, G209; Youtube link title: "Interview, Göttingen 1982."
"My research work was based in pictures. I needed to visualise things and projective geometry was often most useful e.g. in figuring out how a particular quantity transforms under Lorentz transf. When I came to publish the results I suppressed the projective geometry as the results could be expressed more concisely in analytic form."
"A good deal of my research work in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problems, but simply examining mathematical quantities of a kind that physicists use and trying to get 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 that the work does have an application. Then one has had good luck."