Steve: I forget who said it-maybe you said it actually, as the narrator-that "letting the beauty be your guide may only work if you're one of the few super geniuses of the field, where you can appreciate the beauty." If you're even a slightly lesser light of a physicist, maybe you are not able to put that kind of beautiful thing together, where beauty can be your guide.
We were talking about Dirac's conviction that formulations in physics had to be beautiful.
The article is called the "Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature," and a shortened URL for it is bit.ly/dirac1963. But, first I'm happy to let you know that we have fished out the 1963 Scientific American article by Paul Dirac and posted it on our Web site, where it will be available free until July 24th, 2010. Steve: Welcome back for part 2 of our conversation with Graham Farmelo, author of The Strangest Man, the award winning biography of the great theoretical physicist, Paul Dirac. Web sites related to this episode include and. Award-winning writer and physicist Graham Farmelo talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky (pictured) about The Strangest Man, Farmelo's biography of Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist Paul Dirac.
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