Alexis Rondeau

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

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Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings, and Albert R. Hibbs

71 highlights · 1 note · last read August 2023

Highlights I wrote a note on are shown in full. The other 70 are scrambled: the words are the author's, so here you only see where in the book I underlined something.

It was effortless. It was easy to play with these things. It was like uncorking a bottle: Everything flowed out effortlessly. I almost tried to resist it! There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there was. The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.

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My note nobel price starts with piddling