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Valuable insight from a great scientist.
The BBC Horizon The Pleasure of Finding Things Out[1981] interview with Richard Feynman is available on Youtube.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales — about childhood, Los Alamos, or how he won a Nobel Prize — are a vivid and entertaining insight into the mind of a great scientist at work and play.
In this candid interview Feynman touches on a wide array of topics from the beauty of nature to particle physics. He explains things that are hard to grasp in layman’s terms much like Carl Sagan did in the cosmos series. His explanation of the scientific method covers what we know, why we know it and most importantly, what we don’t know and the pleasure of figuring…
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I have read some of his personal stories. Feynman knew when to play, even on the job. His WAG (Wild Arse Guess) were better the most educated determinations. pg
Feynmanian summary of the pause: “If experiment or observation don’t match your theory’s prediction, it is wrong.” No matter how well funded.