“Nature was not satisfied by a simple point charge but required a charge with spin.”

—  Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

about the electron, in [Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, translated by Takeshi Oka, The Story of Spin, University of Chicago Press, 1997, 0-226-80794-0, 60]

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