From: "Ronnie Brown" <ronnie.profbrown@btinternet.com>
To: <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Dirac quotation
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:25:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Hwfg9-0004E7-ER@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In my last email I quoted Dirac and Agnes Boskovitz of ANU asked me for a reference. In fact I have quoted before in `Out of Line'
"Mathematics also leads science. The great physicist, Paul Dirac, in one of
his last addresses, explained his own credo (quoted in [12] p.63):
"One should allow oneself to be led in the direction which the mathematics
suggests... one must follow up a mathematical idea and see what its
consequences are, even though one gets led to a domain which is completely
foreign to what one started with.... Mathematics can lead us in a direction
we would not take if we only followed up physical ideas by themselves."
[12] Ferris, T., The world treasury of physics, astronomy and mathematics,
Little, Brown and Co., 1991.
The quotation is in the article in this volume taken from `The second creation' by R.P. Crease and C.C. Mann (Macmillan, 1986).
I do not have any more information than that and any more would be welcome.
Ronnie
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