Paul Dirac
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"Dirac equation"Dirac combDirac delta functionFermi–Dirac statisticsIncomplete Fermi–Dirac integral/Fermi–Dirac integralComplete Fermi–Dirac integralDirac sea

Dirac bracket

Dirac spinor

Interaction picture/Dirac pictureDirac measureDirac monopoleBra–ket notation/Dirac notationDirac adjoint

Dirac large numbers hypothesis

Dirac fermionFermionic field/Dirac fieldDirac hole theoryDirac spectrumDirac stringDirac algebraGamma matrices/Dirac matricesDirac operatorPlanck constant/Dirac constantDirac's theorem on Hamiltonian cyclesDirac's theorem on cycles in k-connected graphsKapitsa–Dirac effectDirac–von Neumann axioms

Abraham–Lorentz–Dirac forceBreit equation/Dirac-Coulomb-Breit EquationEinstein–Maxwell–Dirac equationsCanonical quantisationCanonical quantum gravityExchange interactionFirst class constraintMathematical formulation of quantum mechanicsNegative probabilityPath integral formulationPrimary constraintQuantum electrodynamicsSpin magnetic momentVirtual particle}}

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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

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God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

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Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

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The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble.

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