The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
Quantum theory
Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
1949 (posthumous)
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"We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future."
Strange & Unusual"I was never a revolutionary. I just wanted to do something useful."
Shocking"The quantum theory has done a great deal for physics, but it has not made it any easier to understand."
Shocking"There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration."
Strange & Unusual"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."
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