Dirac, Paul

"The greatest discoveries come from asking the simplest questions."

"It took mankind two thousand years to understand that space and time are connected."

"To work effectively in physics, one must learn to think like nature thinks."

"Innovation requires the courage to say no to the established order."

"The study of quantum mechanics is humbling to the human intellect."

"Nature does not reveal her secrets easily, but she is always logical."

"An observer is never truly separate from what is being observed."

"The universe is written in the language of mathematics."

"Competition in science drives discovery, but cooperation drives understanding."

"The best physicists are those who admit what they do not know."

"One of the stranger aspects of life is that one cannot make purely destructive contributions."

"The power of a theory lies in its simplicity and its breadth."

"We should not be content with our understanding until it can be expressed in the simplest possible terms."

"Mathematics is a tool that allows us to speak to the universe."

"The beauty of scientific truth is that it is independent of opinion."

"In physics, the description is often more important than the phenomenon."

"The future is unpredictable, but the past is fixed and determined."

"Clarity of thought is the prerequisite for clarity of expression."

"One cannot truly understand a phenomenon without understanding its mathematics."

"The quantum world is not weird; our intuitions about reality are limited."

"Great physicists see patterns where others see only chaos."

"The mark of a great scientist is knowing which questions to ask."

"All science progresses by successive approximations toward truth."

"To doubt everything except the laws of motion is to miss the point of science."

"The universe is under no obligation to match our preconceptions."

"Effort in science must be directed toward understanding, not merely calculating."

"The best theories are those that reveal hidden connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena."

"A true physicist finds beauty in both equations and experiments."

"The purpose of science is not to control nature, but to understand it."

"One learns more from failures in science than from successes."