It Is More Important To Have Beauty

A Termination Of One's Life Is Necessary In The Scheme Of Things To Provide A Logical Reason For Unselfishness. . . . The Fact That There Is An End To One's Life Compels One To Take An Interest In Things That Will Continue To Live After One Is Dead.

I Consider That I Understand An Equation When I Can Predict The Properties Of Its Solutions, Without Actually Solving It.

It Is More Important To Have Beauty In One's Equations Than To Have Them Fit Experiment.

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

A Theory With Mathematical Beauty Is More Likely To Be Correct Than An Ugly One That Fits Some Experimental Data.