Jul28Written by:Tom Wellige
Montag, 28. Juli 2008 16:15 
Richard Feynman was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers of the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamicsm, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965.
Richard Feynman was one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists and original thinkers of the 20th century. He rebuilt the theory of quantum electrodynamicsm, and it was for this work that he won the Nobel Prize in 1965.
In 1981, he gave Horizon (BBC's longest running science series) a candid interview, talking about many things close to his heart.
The BBC has now made portions of The Pleasure of Finding Things Out available for free online:
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Re: The Pleasure of finding Things out The third snippet "Doubt and uncertainty" is one of my favorite quotes from the Book "Genius" of James Gleick (ISBN 0679408363).
".... 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. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I do not know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask 'why are we here?' I do not have to know an answer. I do not feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which it is as far as I can tell. It does not frighten me."
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Dienstag, 29. Juli 2008 07:27
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