"The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible."
— Paul Dirac

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in Dirac: A Scientific Biography (1990), by Helge Kragh, p. 258{{cite book