Paul Dirac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Those who go along get along.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
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I know my limitations. I live and work according to my limitations. And my party only two weeks ago has clearly declared that the leader of the party after Ms Sonia Gandhi will be Mr Rahul Gandhi. And all of us, including me, have expressed our solid support to Mr Rahul Gandhi.
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A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.
