Humorous Sayings

Oh. That's interesting. (This entire scene is very typical of Dirac. In fact, that is comparatively a lot of words for him to have said to a stranger.)

Fiddling is the answer. Experimenting is fiddling around. It's not an organized program, elegance — it's impossible. I noticed it.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out. ... But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him…

This dying is boring.

I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.

People would often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way- in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Yeah, I took the door.

I got a dollar for my patent! I give it to everybody. Result: everybody who has one of these patent because it was easy a lot of people had been sending things in lots of patents. Everybody come down they want their dollar. He starts shelling them ou…

I just did a crazy guy. You are a crazy guy. You made a deal.

I guess I'm just mischievous. I just love to do that to people. Well especially when they're so gleefully happy that it's been going to cost 13 signatures haha.

That's funny.

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

A good gulp of hot whisky at bedtime—it's not very scientific, but it helps.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

I found penicillin and have given it free for the benefit of humanity. Why should it become a profit-making monopoly of manufacturers in another country?

I've dispatc'd, my dear madam, this scrap of a letter, To say that Miss — — is very much better. A Regular Doctor no longer she lacks, And therefore I've sent her a couple of Quacks.