Editing Paul Dirac (section)

=== Praise ===
Dirac is widely considered to be on par with [[Isaac Newton|Sir Isaac Newton]], [[James Clerk Maxwell]], and Einstein.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hey |first1=Tony |url=https://archive.org/details/quantumuniverse0000heya/mode/1up |title=The Quantum Universe |last2=Walters |first2=Patrick |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1987 |isbn=978-0521267441 |pages=124 |language=en |author-link=Tony Hey}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Close |first=Frank |date=20 May 2009 |title=Paul Dirac: a physicist of few words |journal=Nature |language=en |volume=459 |issue=7245 |pages=326–327 |doi=10.1038/459326a |issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free |bibcode=2009Natur.459..326C }}</ref>{{sfn|Kragh|1990|pp=ix, 12}} Einstein wrote that to Dirac "we owe the most logically perfect presentation of [quantum mechanics]."<ref>{{cite book| last=Pais| first=Abraham| title=[[Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein]]| year=1982| page=441}}</ref>

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Dirac's birth, [[Richard Dalitz]] wrote "The influence and importance of Dirac's work have increased with the decades, and physicists use daily the concepts and equations that he developed."<ref name="Cern Courier-2002" />

In [[Lev Landau]]'s [[Lev Landau#Landau's ranking of physicists|logarithmic scale]] of physicists from 0 to 5 based on productivity and genius, (0 being the highest and 5 the lowest) he ranked Dirac a 1, along with other fathers of quantum mechanics such as Schrödinger and [[Werner Heisenberg]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Jichao |last2=Yin |first2=Yian |last3=Fortunato |first3=Santo |last4=Wang |first4=Dashun |date=2019-04-18 |title=Nobel laureates are almost the same as us |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-019-0057-z |journal=Nature Reviews Physics |language=en |volume=1 |issue=5 |pages=301–303 |doi=10.1038/s42254-019-0057-z |bibcode=2019NatRP...1..301L |issn=2522-5820}}</ref>

[[John Polkinghorne]] wrote: "Not only was Dirac the greatest theoretical physicist known to me personally, his purity of spirt and modesty of demeanour (he never emphasized in the slightest degree his own immense contributions to the fundamentals of the subject) made him an inspiring figure and a kind of scientific saint."<ref>{{cite book| last=Polkinghorne| first=John| author-link=John Polkinghorne| title=Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction| publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>{{rp|xii}}