A Great Deal Of My Work Is

There Is In My Opinion A Great Similarity Between The Problems Provided By The Mysterious Behavior Of The Atom And Those Provided By The Present Economic Paradoxes Confronting The World.

When [erwin Schrödinger] Went To The Solvay Conferences In Brussels, He Would Walk From The Station To The Hotel Where The Delegates Stayed, Carrying All His Luggage In A Rucksack And Looking So Like A Tramp That It Needed A Great Deal Of Argument At The Reception Desk Before He Could Claim A Room.

Well, In The First Place, It Leads To Great Anxiety As To Whether It's Going To Be Correct Or Not ... I Expect That's The Dominating Feeling. It Gets To Be Rather A Fever... At Age 60, When Asked About His Feelings On Discovering The Dirac Equation.

I Think It Is The General Rule That The Originator Of A New Idea Is Not The Most Suitable Person To Develop It, Because His Fears Of Something Going Wrong Are Really Too Strong... At Age 69.

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.