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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.

If You Are Receptive And Humble, Mathematics Will Lead You By The Hand. Again And Again, When I Have Been At A Loss How To Proceed, I Have Just Had To Wait Until I Have Felt The Mathematics Led Me By The Hand. It Has Led Me Along An Unexpected Path, A Path Where New Vistas Open Up, A Path Leading To New Territory, Where One Can Set Up A Base Of Operations, From Which One Can Survey The Surroundings And Plan Future Progress.

The Only Object Of Theoretical Physics Is To Calculate Results That Can Be Compared With Experiment... It Is Quite Unnecessary That Any Satisfactory Description Of The Whole Course Of The Phenomena Should Be Given.

The Shortage Of Buyers, Which The World Is Suffering From, Is Readily Understood, Not As Due To People Not Wishing To Obtain Possession Of Goods, But As People Being Unwilling To Part With Something Which Might Earn A Regular Income In Exchange For Those Goods.

As Time Goes On, It Becomes Increasingly Evident That The Rules Which The Mathematician Finds Interesting Are The Same As Those Which Nature Has Chosen.