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there is a quote from Pauli about Dirac : 'There is no God and Dirac is his prophet' Heisenberg and Dirac had different opinions on the existence of a god and Pauli, asked for his opinion, had the former to say

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There's a quote Atiyah has about spin geometry which he heard from his advisor Hodge, who had an office next to Dirac at Cambridge.

Only two people understand spinors: God, and Dirac. And Dirac's dead.

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