Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
This book recounts the author's personal journey and how Richard Feynman's influence profoundly impacted his understanding of physics and life. It discusses the importance of following one's passions and the connection between physics and beauty.
To be a physicist is to have an enormous potential to change the world.
— Episode: [Unedited] Leonard Mlodinow with Krista...
Episode: [Unedited] Leonard Mlodinow with Krista Tippett
This book recounts the author's personal journey and how Richard Feynman's influence profoundly impacted his understanding of physics and life. It discusses the importance of following one's passions and the connection between physics and beauty.
To be a physicist is to have an enormous potential to change the world.
the rainbow is beautiful because it's beautiful to behold and that there's a connection between, you have in physics you have to follow your passion.
Episode: Leonard Mlodinow — Randomness and Choice
This book recounts Leonard Mlodinow's friendship and studies with Richard Feynman, exploring beauty in physics and life. The podcast host noted a line from the book about the potential of physicists to change the world.
To be a physicist is to have an enormous potential to change the world.
Episode: [Unedited] Leonard Mlodinow with Krista Tippett
This book recounts the author's personal journey in physics and how Richard Feynman influenced him, both professionally and personally. It highlights Feynman's emphasis on following one's passions and the beauty inherent in problem-solving.
To be a physicist is to have an enormous potential to change the world.
I mean, it's really your story but it's interwoven with the story of his influence on you. To be a physicist is to have an enormous potential to change the world. That's a very grand sentence.
And his point was that the rainbow is beautiful because it's beautiful to behold and that there's a connection between, you have in physics you have to follow your passion.
Feynman really taught me that you need to follow your passions in life. If you can, I mean, not everyone has that opportunity, but if you can, it's best to follow your passions in life and that not just will that be more fulfilling, but you'll do better work.
And when you look at physics problems, you have to look at it from that point of view, from the point of view of it, this being a beautiful problem and you being excited about trying to solve it. It's not just a job and you should try to live your whole life that way if you can, which was very different because a lot of people in science are very, they may start that way, but they soon get focused on success.
