If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.

You know, what Einstein has just said isn't so stupid.

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.

If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.

Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!

When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin cannot be reduced only and firstly to the sensual perception but which are produced by an 'instinct to imagining' and which are re-produced by different individuals independently, i.e. collectively... But the archaic image is also the necessary predisposition and the source of a scientific attitude. To a total recognition belong also those images out of which have grown the rational concepts.

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?