Posts Tagged ‘ Feynman ’
This is news so good I could not keep it to myself. Bill Gates recently bought the rights to a series of lectures by legendary Caltech physicist Richard Feynman. The former Microsoft head’s purchase shows that the cultural and scientific legacy of Feynman remains strong even 21 years after his death. The lectures, given in [ READ MORE ]
Image by Emilio Segre Visual Archives via Flickr Freeman Dyson once described Richard Feynman as ‘half-genius, half-buffoon’. He later revised this opinion to ‘all-genius, all-buffoon’. I cannot think of a better epitaph[ READ MORE ]
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