The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

" He also did work that forms the basis of modern attempts to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics. This work does not refer to any other writings then available on quantum mechanics. While lecturing later in life Dirac always insisted on calling the former "Fermi statistics".

Dirac shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1933 with Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory. " He also did work that forms the basis of modern attempts to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics. : /dɪˈræk/ di-RAK; 8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.