“The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.”

—  Alan Turing

Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954).

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British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer… 1912–1954

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