Paul Dirac Quotes

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

I always treated the science thing and the art thing as quite similar thematically.

The French will always do exactly the opposite on what the United States wants regardless of what happens, so we're never going to have a consistent policy.

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

Science disembodies; art embodies.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.