“ In this age people are experiencing a delight, the tremendous delight that you get when you guess how nature will work in a new situation never seen before. ”
Richard Feynman, The Character of Physical Law (1965). copy citation
| Author | Richard Feynman |
|---|---|
| Source | The Character of Physical Law |
| Topic | age experience |
| Date | 1965 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.cornell.edu/video/playlist/richard-feynman-messenger-lecture... |
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“But that explanation would be in a frame that we cannot criticize by arguing that that type of reasoning will not permit us to go further. There will be a degeneration of ideas, just like the degeneration that great explorers feel is occurring when tourists begin moving in on a territory.
In this age people are experiencing a delight, the tremendous delight that you get when you guess how nature will work in a new situation never seen before. From experiments and information in a certain range you can guess what is going to happen in a region where no one has ever explored before. It is a little different from regular exploration in that there are enough clues on the land discovered to guess what the land that has not been discovered is going to look like.”
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