He went on haphazardly to advance his studies in applied mathematics and fitfully to pursue an interest in the then nascent field of relativity physics at Cambridge. He was, in a sense, the antithesis of the mythical British empiricist. There he learned, among other things, engineering drawing, and that he was hopeless with any task involving manual dexterity. How he did this was hardly methodical and can only be called scientific in retrospect.ĭirac was initially trained in what today would be termed a trade school in Bristol. He was also a genius who was the first to formulate the relativistic mathematics of quantum mechanics. Dirac was a bona fide eccentric, a nerd, a geek, probably autistic, someone who just didn’t fit wherever he found himself. This aptly-titled biography of the prominent 20th century British scientist, Paul Dirac, is an illustration of the point.
Taking such terms seriously - except to dismiss them - is usually bad for human beings and other living things. Their primary function is one of propaganda, sometimes professional, often religious, always tendentious.
We use such terms as if we knew what they mean but they are largely without any definite content. Scientific method, like human nature, is a term of approval or disapproval not a description of anything real.
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