James Gleick

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

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  • Andre Franciscohas quoted3 years ago
    Afterward demons afflicted the bomb makers. J. Robert Oppenheimer made speeches about his shadowed soul, and other physicists began to feel his uneasiness at having handed humanity the power of self-destruction.
  • Stasya Zhas quoted5 years ago
    gists. In his youth he experimented for months on end with trying to observe his unraveling stream of consciousness at the point of falling asleep
  • Stasya Zhas quoted5 years ago
    There are two kinds of geniuses, the “ordinary” and the “magicians.” An ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what they have done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians. They are, to use mathematical jargon, in the orthogonal complement of where we are and the working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark
  • Stasya Zhas quoted5 years ago
    Principles
    You can’t say A is made of B
    or vice versa.
    All mass is interaction.
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