"No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors."

-- Michael Atiyah

#Squares Quotes #Roots Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?”
“A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.”
“All of us are crazy in one or another way.”
“What you are to be, you are now becoming.”
“Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.”
“I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we live on, if we assume we can find or make more worlds. I think in our lifetimes we surely will not, probably in the lifetimes of our great-great-grand-descendants we will not.”
“With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.”
“To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.”

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