If We Are Honest - And Scientists

I Consider That I Understand An Equation When I Can Predict The Properties Of Its Solutions, Without Actually Solving It.

The Shortage Of Buyers, Which The World Is Suffering From, Is Readily Understood, Not As Due To People Not Wishing To Obtain Possession Of Goods, But As People Being Unwilling To Part With Something Which Might Earn A Regular Income In Exchange For Those Goods.

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.

Well, In The First Place, It Leads To Great Anxiety As To Whether It's Going To Be Correct Or Not ... I Expect That's The Dominating Feeling. It Gets To Be Rather A Fever... At Age 60, When Asked About His Feelings On Discovering The Dirac Equation.

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.