1. Paul Dirac has said, "There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world."
2. Paul Dirac has also said, "The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers."
3. And then, Paul Dirac has said, "Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star."
4. Dirac once stated, "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
5. Paul Dirac was convinced that the quantum world could not be expressed in words or imagination. Its beauty reveals itself only in mathematical formulae. . To draw its picture would be "like a blind man sensing a snowflake. One touch and it’s gone".
6. Dirac liked Mickie Mouse and Blondie, but found Peanuts hard to understand.
7. An atheist, Dirac was buried under a gravestone chosen by his wife, Manci. It read "because God said it should be so".
8. Dirac told Oppenheimer: "Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing poetry. I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say... something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand."
9. At Paul Dirac's home silence was observed at every meal, so that he could concentrate on eating, and no drop of alcohol was allowed anywhere, even in recipes.
10. When Manci, his wife-to-be, wrote Dirac an angry letter asking why he had replied to none of the questions in her previous correspondence,he drew up, in tabular form, an explanation of why he could not use the endearments customary with lovers, since they were not literally true.
11. Paul Dirac's elder brother committed suicide, for which Dirac blamed his father (though Dirac clearly regarded his brother as an inferior, had not spoken to him for some years and would pass him in the street with an expressionless stare). After Dirac won two scholarships to Cambridge, it appeared that he would lose his place for want of £5. Dirac’s father gave his son the money and made him understand that he had launched the boy’s career. After his father died in 1936, it emerged that he had not given Dirac the essential £5, although he could have done so, having hoarded more than £7,500, some 15 times his annual salary. The crucial fiver had come from the local education authority.
12. Dirac did not do talk. His fellow students invented a unit, "the Dirac", for the smallest imaginable number of words someone could utter in an hour.
13. "I never knew love or affection when I was a child," Dirac once said.
14. The only time Dirac was known to have wept was when Einstein died.
15. In the question time following one of his lectures, a student ventured that he did not understand an equation on the blackboard. Dirac remained impassive until prompted, and then replied, "That is not a question, it is a comment."
16. Looking at an impressionist painting, he remarked, "This boat looks as if it was not finished."
17. Dirac told Heisenberg: "I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest, and as scientists honesty is our precise duty, we cannot help but admit that any religion is a pack of false statements, deprived of any real foundation. The very idea of God is a product of human imagination.... I do not recognize any religious myth, at least because they contradict one another...."
18. Urged to read Crime and Punishment, he worked through it sentence by sentence, and concluded it was "nice", though "in one of the chapters the author makes a mistake: he describes the sun as rising twice on the same day".
19. Visiting Russia in the 1930s, he remained unaware that millions were dying of famine as a result of collectivisation and he dismissed British press reports of Stalin’s purges as exaggeration.
20. In post-war Cambridge, although still the Lucasian Professor, he was an irrelevance. They even took away his departmental parking space.
21. Manci, Dirac's wife, was [Nobelist] Eugene Wigner's sister. She would storm into meetings asking:"Where is that idiot?" Manci always called Dirac an idiot.
22. Paul dirac's grandson leo dirac has a blog; writes on business and technology trends
23. Werner Heisenberg and Dirac were sailing on a cruise ship to a conference in Japan in August, 1929. Heisenberg was a hedonist who constantly flirted and danced with women on the ship, while Dirac suffered agonies if forced into any kind of socialising or small talk. 'Why do you dance?' Dirac asked his companion. 'When there are nice girls, it is a pleasure,' Heisenberg replied. Dirac pondered this notion, then blurted out: 'But, Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?'"
24. The street on which the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida, is located was named Paul Dirac Drive. There is also a road named after him in his home town of Bristol, UK.
25. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, (8 August 1902 20 October 1984) was a British theoretical physicist. In 1933, at the age of 31, Dirac became the youngest theoretician to win a Nobel prize.