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Dirac was maybe the greatest autist of the 20th century.

An anecdote recounted in a review of the 2009 biography tell...
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Date: September 7th, 2023 8:08 PM
Author: magenta dead immigrant hell

An anecdote recounted in a review of the 2009 biography tells of Werner Heisenberg and Dirac sailing on an ocean liner to a conference in Japan in August 1929. "Both still in their twenties, and unmarried, they made an odd couple. Heisenberg was a ladies' man who constantly flirted and danced, while Dirac—'an Edwardian geek', as biographer Graham Farmelo puts it—suffered agonies if forced into any kind of socializing or small talk. 'Why do you dance?' Dirac asked his companion. 'When there are nice girls, it is a pleasure,' Heisenberg replied. Dirac pondered this notion, then blurted out: 'But, Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?'"[50]

Margit Dirac told both George Gamow and Anton Capri in the 1960s that her husband had said to a house visitor, "Allow me to present Wigner's sister, who is now my wife."[51][52]

Another story told of Dirac is that when he first met the young Richard Feynman at a conference, he said after a long silence, "I have an equation. Do you have one too?"[53]

After he presented a lecture at a conference, one colleague raised his hand and said: "I don't understand the equation on the top-right-hand corner of the blackboard". After a long silence, the moderator asked Dirac if he wanted to answer the question, to which Dirac replied: "That was not a question, it was a comment."[54][55]

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Date: September 7th, 2023 8:10 PM
Author: Spectacular house

Cr friend

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Date: September 7th, 2023 11:05 PM
Author: wonderful legal warrant twinkling uncleanness



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Date: September 7th, 2023 11:52 PM
Author: Hairraiser internal respiration

lmao

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Date: September 10th, 2023 1:43 PM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone nowag



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Date: December 29th, 2024 3:50 PM
Author: sienna voyeur national



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Date: November 27th, 2025 6:00 PM
Author: self-satisfied and socially compliant



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