"It's one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by man. You might say the "hand of God" wrote that number, and "we don't know how He pushed his pencil." We know what kind of a dance to do experimentally to measure this number very accurately, but we don't know what kind of dance to do on the computer to make this number come out, without putting it in secretly!"
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Richard Feynman, on the numerical value of α, the fine-structure constant, in QED : The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 129
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