"No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is……" — Michael Atiyah
"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."
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