Richard Feynman
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Richard Phillips Feynman, född 11 maj 1918, död 15 februari 1988, var en amerikansk fysiker. 1965 fick han Nobelpriset i fysik tillsammans med två andra för sitt arbete med kvantelektrodynamik. Han hjälpte bl.a. också till med att utveckla atombomben.
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Citat
- "[..] there is plenty of room to make [computers] smaller [..] nothing that I can see in the physical laws [..] says the computer elements cannot be made enormously smaller than they are now. In fact, there may be certain advantages." (Sagt 1959)
- "I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."
- "Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize."
- "Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
- "[..] I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never."
- "You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying 'one, two, three, four, five protons', they say 'hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron'."
- "I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians."
- "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
- "You never really know a subject unless you can prepare a freshman lecture on it."
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Externa länkar
- Biografi (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Feynman.html)
- Feynman Lectures on Computation (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0738202967)
