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Richard Feynman
said
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
— "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics," Nobel Lecture (11 December 1965)
Richard Feynman
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
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- Fame78.9
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- United States rank#249
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Lived 1918–1988, aged 70United States
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He made the subatomic world drawable. Feynman diagrams turned particle physics into pictures, and his knack for explaining quantum mechanics to undergraduates—then to anyone—made him the rare theorist who could hold a lecture hall and a Nobel both.
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Richard Phillips Feynman shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga for fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, the theory governing how light and matter interact. He'd already helped build the atomic bomb during World War II and gone on to develop the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, explain superfluidity in supercooled helium, and propose the parton model for understanding particles inside protons. He held the Richard C. Tolman professorship at Caltech and pioneered ideas in quantum computing and nanotechnology, including his 195…
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Richard Feynman
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The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction.
— "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics," Nobel Lecture (11 December 1965)
Richard Feynman
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The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language. The desire is to have the idea clearly communicated to the other person.
— "New Textbooks for the "New" Mathematics", Engineering and Science volume 28, number 6 (March 1965) p. 9-15 at p. 14
Richard Feynman
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Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.
— statement (c. 1965), quoted in "An irreverent best-seller by Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gives nerds a good name", People Magazine (22
Richard Feynman
said
In this age of specialization men who thoroughly know one field are often incompetent to discuss another.
— remarks (2 May 1956) at a Caltech YMCA lunch forum
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