...of Nature" (Scientific American, CCVIII [May, 1963]), PAM Dirac emphatically confirms this: '. . . It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment'. I shall presently say more about the final arbitrament of such rival claims. Maurice Merleau-Ponty's...

...spin was discovered a complete agreement with the earlier equation was obtained. Dirac concludes : 'I think there is a moral to this story, namely, that...one's equations than to have them fit experiment' (pp. 113-14, italics added). Finally, Bach argues that 'the prevailing assumptions of American linguistics...

...Schrodinger's relativistic equation and the experiment was completely cleared up'. Whence Dirac concludes: 'I think there is a moral to this story, namely, that...one's equations than to have them fit experiment' (Dirac, 1963, pp. 46sq). It may not be amiss to remark that Dirac was a successor of Newton's as Lucasian...

...discoveries, even when it at first sight appears to contradict the observational facts. Paul Dirac once wrote: It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment . . . because the discrepancy may be due to minor features that are not properly taken into account...

...out before us', a theme echoed by many of his contemporaries. Paul Dirac went so far as to declare that 'It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.' The point that Dirac was making is that a leap of creative imagination can produce a theory which is...

...Schrodinger's not publishing his first version of the wave equation because it conflicted with empirical data: I think there is a moral to this story, namely that...one's equations than to have them fit experiment. ... It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...

...(1963, p. 47), after discussing why Schrodinger failed to publish a relativistic wave equation, stated that "it is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment." Even if we accept Dirac's argument "that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty...

...(1980) claim that science is an art and his quotation of Nobel laureate physicist Paul Dirac who said, "It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment" (11). Linguistics too can be scientific, humanistic, and aesthetic. It must be, as we are engaged in...

...Spectator. 5 vols. Oxford, 1965. WJR Richardson, Jonathan. The Works of Jonathan Richardson. London, 1792. It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment. —Paul AMDirac Prologue Li s than two minutes later, when the sun emerged, the trailing edge of the...

...he replied] cosmopolitan. Diogenes Laertius VI, 63 Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac 1902-84 63 I think that there is a moral to this story, namely that it is...one's equations than to have them fit experiment. If Schrodinger had been more confident of his work, he could have published it some months earlier,...