Posts tagged with ‘richard feynman’

Afternoon moment of zen: Richard Feynman “Ode to a Flower”

“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars— mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is ‘mere’. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination— stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern— of which I am a part… What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent.”

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Daily Richard Feynman: “Take the World from Another Point of View”

From an interview on PBS NOVA from 1973.

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Today would have been Richard Feynman’s 94th birthday

So here is playing bongos. RIP, Mr. Feynman.

Morning Feynman: “The Rules of Chess”

Richard Feynman explains why it’s not only no big deal, but it’s essential that scientists remain fluid in their beliefs.

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Richard Feynman on the likelihood of UFOs

American physicist Richard Feynman on the Likelihood of Flying Saucers.

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