From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/3786 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ronnie Brown" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Dirac quotation Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:25:16 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241019521 10280 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:38:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:38:41 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Fri Jun 8 11:51:45 2007 -0300 Return-path: Envelope-to: categories-list@mta.ca Delivery-date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:51:45 -0300 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1Hwfg9-0004E7-ER for categories-list@mta.ca; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:43:05 -0300 Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 11 Original-Lines: 28 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:3786 Archived-At: 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'=20 "Mathematics also leads science. The great physicist, Paul Dirac, in one = of=20 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=20 suggests... one must follow up a mathematical idea and see what its=20 consequences are, even though one gets led to a domain which is = completely=20 foreign to what one started with.... Mathematics can lead us in a = direction=20 we would not take if we only followed up physical ideas by themselves." [12] Ferris, T., The world treasury of physics, astronomy and = mathematics,=20 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).=20 I do not have any more information than that and any more would be = welcome.=20 Ronnie