Abbasi,
Watching this great mind speaking of waves with those hypnotizing hand movements exhilirated me in an astonishing way. Thanks for reminding me why Harvey and I loved Feyman so. What a sublime human being, what a magnificent mind.
Love,
Aps.
Posted by: Azra Raza | Mar 15, 2008 11:44:44 AM
I'm reading Feynman's book "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" and it's a real delight. He talks a lot in it about his drumming and it's great to actually see him do it and how much he enjoys it.
I wish there were physicists like him (at least in character) in my faculty.
Posted by: Nikolai Nikola | Mar 15, 2008 12:37:53 PM
"the inconceivable complexity of nature"-- explained by a guy who loved drums and picking locks, among other things. Thanks for these videos.
I enjoy his response to someone who asked him to furnish a photograph of himself playing the drums as a way of presenting the human side of physics:
Dear Sir,
The fact that I beat a drum has nothing to do with the fact that I do theoretical physics. Theoretical physics is a human endeavor, one of the higher developments of human beings, and the perpetual desire to prove that people who do it are human by showing that they do other things that a few other humans do (like playing bongo drums) is insulting to me.
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Abbas, Richard FeYnman. Welcome. :)
Posted by: MS | Mar 15, 2008 9:44:45 AM
Thanks.
Posted by: Abbas Raza | Mar 15, 2008 10:28:23 AM
Abbasi,
Watching this great mind speaking of waves with those hypnotizing hand movements exhilirated me in an astonishing way. Thanks for reminding me why Harvey and I loved Feyman so. What a sublime human being, what a magnificent mind.
Love,
Aps.
Posted by: Azra Raza | Mar 15, 2008 11:44:44 AM
I'm reading Feynman's book "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" and it's a real delight. He talks a lot in it about his drumming and it's great to actually see him do it and how much he enjoys it.
I wish there were physicists like him (at least in character) in my faculty.
Posted by: Nikolai Nikola | Mar 15, 2008 12:37:53 PM
"the inconceivable complexity of nature"-- explained by a guy who loved drums and picking locks, among other things. Thanks for these videos.
Posted by: Marilyn Terrell | Mar 15, 2008 10:18:29 PM
I enjoy his response to someone who asked him to furnish a photograph of himself playing the drums as a way of presenting the human side of physics:
Dear Sir,
The fact that I beat a drum has nothing to do with the fact that I do theoretical physics. Theoretical physics is a human endeavor, one of the higher developments of human beings, and the perpetual desire to prove that people who do it are human by showing that they do other things that a few other humans do (like playing bongo drums) is insulting to me.
I am human enough to tell you to go to hell.
Yours,
RPF
Quite so.
Posted by: D | Mar 17, 2008 7:19:46 PM
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