The Strangest Man

Graham Farmalo 2009, Paul Dirac biography

• P39, Charlie C.D. Broad, Dirac teacher, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol
  • "A philosopher who regards ignorance of a scientific theory as insufficient reason for not writing about it cannot be accused of a complete lack of originality"
  • re. relativity: "popular expositions of the Theory are either definitely wrong, or so loosely expressed as to be dangerously misleading; and all pamplets against it - even when issued by eminent Oxford tutors - are based on elementary misunderstandings"
  • - Broad, 1923 Scientific Thought reprinted 1993
• 1933 Nobel Prize - positron
• Wolfgang Pauli nemesis
• P332 "In America, the young are always ready to give those who are older than themselves, the full benefits of their inexperience"
  • - Oscar Wilde, The American Invasion 1887
• Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, close friends with Peter Kapitza