Richard Feynman1918–1988- Lecture 1. “Photons: Corpuscles of Light” (1979) Sir Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures, University of Auckland.
- Rogers Commission Report (1986)
- What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988), “The Making of a Scientist,” p. 11: video
- interview published in Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, p. 208-209 ISBN 0521354625
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985), Part 5: “The World of One Physicist”, “But Is It Art?”, p. 261
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. I (1963), lecture 3, “The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences”, p. 3-6
- “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”, p. 28-29
- What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988) (From a 1963 letter to his wife Gweneth, written while attending a gravity conference in Communist-era Warsaw.)
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 July 1985)I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988), “The Making of a Scientist”, p. 14I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
From Omni interview, “The Smartest Man in the World” (1979) p. 203- The Value of Science (1955)
- The Character of Physical Law (1965), chapter 6, “Probability and Uncertainty — the Quantum Mechanical View of Nature,” p. 127-128
