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Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet.
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There is no God and Dirac is his Prophet.
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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."
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Well, our friend Dirac, too, has a religion, and its guiding principle is "God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet."
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As quoted in the authorized translation, Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversations (1971) by Werner Heisenberg, p. 87

 
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