I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking.
Paul DiracHopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.
Paul DiracThe aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.
Paul DiracIt 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.
Paul Dirac