Sublime

Bohr était capable de consacrer des heures à discuter le détail de leurs hypothèses, avec un mélange unique de perspicacité philosophique, de bienveillance et de rigueur. Précis, voire maniaque, il ne tolérait aucune approximation dans l'interprétation des expériences ; mais, non plus, aucune idée neuve ne lui paraissait a priori folle, aucun

There have, of course, been several physicists who made extremely successful forays into biology, the most spectacular of which was probably Francis Crick, who with James Watson determined the structure of DNA,

I must stress immediately that I am not referring merely to the ‘theory of everything’ which some particle physicists hope they will soon discover. Their ‘theory of everything’ would be a unified theory of all the basic forces known to physics,

Feynman’s approach was to maintain a list of a dozen open questions. When a new scientific finding came out, he would test it against each of his questions to see if it shed any new light on the problem. This cross-disciplinary approach allowed him to make connections across seemingly unrelated subjects, while continuing to follow his sense of