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Zsolt Kohalmi The Late Harvest's avatar

An excellent post. I wonder if Dirac had a unique interpretation based on his mathematical beauty obsession, and qualifying himself a failure at age 78.

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He was extremely obsessed with the mathematical beauty and physical reality. But one thing I have realized is that his relativistic quantum physics is indeed beautifully crafted. Scientists always thinks themselves as a failure I believe particularly the great ones.

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Zsolt Kohalmi The Late Harvest's avatar

He won the Nobel Prize as the youngest ever and chased absolute beauty for the rest of his life. The most beautiful "failure"...

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