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Richard Feynman's Six Easy Pieces

Discussion Led by Scott Hildreth


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"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong."  - Richard Feynman

 

From James Gleick's book, Genius:

 

Why is the world the way it is?  Why is science the way it is?  How do we discover new rules for the flowering complexity around us? Are we reaching toward nature's simple heart, or are we merely peeling away layers of an infinitely deep onion?  Although he sometimes retreated to a stance of pure practicality, Feynman gave answers to these questions, philosophical and unscientific though he knew they were.

 

Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"

Feynman's 1955 National Academy of Science Award Speech "The Value of Science"

Feynman's 1965 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech: http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-lecture.html

Michelle Feynman's Book about her father: http://www.basicfeynman.com/qa.html

NPR's Interview with Michelle: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

Joan Feynman's CV at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Ross, Kelley (2000) Richard Feynman - A Life in Science. (Review) http://www.friesian.com/feynman.htm

Klymkowsky, Michael. (2005) "What is Science, Anyway?" University of Colorado. Virtuallaboratory.net. http://www.virtuallaboratory.net/Biofundamentals/labs/WhatisScience/section_01.html

 


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