“...I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.” GodScienceExistenceAtheismArgumentAtheistPhysicsProphetEnglishTheoretical PhysicsMilitant AtheismDiracMilitant AtheistPaul DiracPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac Author:Linus Pauling
“Dirac's equation not only accounted for the spin of the electron and its observed magnetic moment, but also correctly explained the fine structure of the hydrogen atom. If the derivation of the Sommerfeld-like formula for the spectrum of the hydrogen atom was one of the striking successes of the Dirac equation, some of its other features were very troublesome.” PhysicsQuantum PhysicsHistory Of ScienceFine Structure ConstantDiracSommerfeld Book:QED and the Men Who Made It Source: QED and the Men Who Made It
“Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet. (There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet.) {A remark made during the Fifth Solvay International Conference (October 1927), after a discussion of the religious views of various physicists, at which all the participants laughed, including Dirac, as quoted in Teil und das Ganze (1969), by Werner Heisenberg, p. 119; it is an ironic play on the Muslim statement of faith, the Shahada, often translated: 'There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet.'}” HumorScienceAtheismIslamPhysicsProphetMuslimMuhammadAllahReligious ViewsHeisenbergWerner HeisenbergDiracPaul DiracPaul Am Dirac Author:Wolfgang Pauli
“Our friend Dirac has a creed; and the main tenet of that creed is: There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.” HumorScienceProphetFriendCreedDiracTenetPaul DiracPaul Am DiracNo God Author:Wolfgang Pauli