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The Methods Of Theoretical Physics Should Be Applicable To All Those Branches Of Thought In Which The Essential Features Are Expressible With Numbers.

Quantum Mechanics Has Explained All Of Chemistry And Most Of Physics.

The Research Worker, In His Efforts To Express The Fundamental Laws Of Nature In Mathematical Form, Should Strive Mainly For Mathematical Beauty. He Should Take Simplicity Into Consideration In A Subordinate Way To Beauty ... It Often Happens That The Requirements Of Simplicity And Beauty Are The Same, But Where They Clash, The Latter Must Take Precedence.

I Do Not See How A Man Can Work On The Frontiers Of Physics And Write Poetry At The Same Time. They Are In Opposition. In Science You Want To Say Something That Nobody Knew Before, In Words Which Everyone Can Understand. In Poetry You Are Bound To Say ... Something That Everyone Knows Already In Words That Nobody Can Understand. Commenting To Him About The Poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer Wrote.

The Fundamental Laws Necessary For The Mathematical Treatment Of A Large Part Of Physics And The Whole Of Chemistry Are Thus Completely Known, And The Difficulty Lies Only In The Fact That Application Of These Laws Leads To Equations That Are Too Complex To Be Solved.