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he was one of the youngest students ever to start the Stanford PhD program. “He skipped a million years,”
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
17 powerful sentences by Richard Feynman reflecting his approach to science, education, life and more:
Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in quantum mechanics, particle physics, and his unique approach to teaching physics.
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Mia Wong • 25 cards
Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used to enjoy doing physics. Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it. I used to do whatever I felt like doing - it didn't have to do with whether it was important for the development of nuclear physics, but whether it was interesting and amusing for me to play with. When I... See more
Richard Feynman, Spinning Plates and Serious Play — Think Jar Collective
First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.
Richard P. Feynman • Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time (Helix Books)
@michael_nielsen There is a lot of wisdom in this piece by David Stern. I reread it from time to time to remind myself. https://t.co/jLiTBNr06O
Now, what should we teach first? Should we teach the correct but unfamiliar law with its strange and difficult conceptual ideas, for example the theory of relativity, four-dimensional space-time, and so on? Or should we first teach the simple “constant-mass” law, which is only approximate, but does not involve such difficult ideas? The first is mor
... See moreRobert B. Leighton • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Quantum Computing
shashaank • 2 cards