"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
"The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely."
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Source: Epigram to Robin Gandy in 1954. Alan Turing: The Enigma. Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 513, 1992.
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