“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. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand.”
-Paul Dirac (to Oppenheimer, regarding Oppie’s reported dabbling in poetry)
“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. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand.”
-Paul Dirac (to Oppenheimer, regarding Oppie’s reported dabbling in poetry)
This seems like a complete misunderstanding of poetry to me.
I mean… in his defense… Paul Dirac was pretty dumb. He was probably just doing his best ;-)
Likewise!