"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite."
― Paul Dirac
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Paul Dirac
- "It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one’s equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress."
- "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."
- "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
More In Poetry
- "I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to."― Jewel Kilcher
- "Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen."― Gertrude Stein
- "It’s something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else’s poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you’re too awkward to do it."― John Cusack