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Although Paul Dirac was one of the founders of quantum mechanics, his peers always perceived him as an outsider, with a unique approach to the subject that was often hard to understand. In this talk, I explain how he came to have such an unusual perspective and why it enabled him to be so productive. In particular, I want to describe the origins of his passion for the idea that mathematical beauty is crucially important to theoreticians who seek the fundamental laws of nature.