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The speaker was unsure whether the attribution was accurate, but reported that Dirac was said to have remarked, “The rest is chemistry.”
Ekin Dogus Cubuk · Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk · 8 Oct 2026
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“And then there's a phrase people like to quote,”
“I'm not sure actually how accurate it is,”
“but apparently Dirac said,”
“the rest is chemistry.”Play from 14:40Report a misattribution
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