Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [268]
53 HE HAD BEEN ONE OF THE YOUNG AMERICANS: Slater 1975, 131.
53 SLATER KEPT MAKING MINOR DISCOVERIES: Ibid., 130–35.
54 I DO NOT LIKE MYSTIQUES: Slater, oral-history interview, AIP. Quoted in Schweber 1989, 53.
54 HE DOES NOT ORDINARILY ARGUE: Quoted in Schweber, forthcoming.
54 THEY STUDY CAREFULLY THE RESULTS: Ibid.
55 ASSEMBLING A PHYSICS DEPARTMENT: Karl T. Compton, “An Adventure in Education,” New York Times, 15 September 1935.
55 BARELY A DOZEN GRADUATE STUDENTS: Morse 1977, 125
56 THE INSTRUCTORS TOLD THE STUDENTS: Slater and Frank 1933, v-vii.
56 WHY DON’T YOU TRY BERNOULLI’S: F-W, 136
56 THE FIRST DAY EVERYONE HAD TO FILL OUT: Welton 1983; F-W, 137. 56 COOPERATION IN THE STRUGGLE: Ibid.
56 MR. FEYNMAN, HOW DID YOU: Ibid. Welton added that Feynman’s solutions were “always correct and frequently ingenious” and that “Stratton never entrusted his lecture to me or any other student.”
57 A LIFEGUARD, SOME FEET UP THE BEACH: QED, 51–52.
58 OUR FRIEND DIRAC, TOO: Quoted in Schweber, forthcoming.
58 THERE CANNOT BE ANY ATOMS: Descartes 1955, 264.
59 AT THE SAME TIME: Ibid., 299.
60 FEYNMAN WOULD RESORT TO INGENIOUS COMPUTATIONAL TRICKS: F-W, 139
60 FEYNMAN HAD FIRST COME ON THE PRINCIPLE: Lectures, II-19.
61 SEEMED TO FEYNMAN A MIRACLE: Ibid., II-19–2.
61 IT SEEMS TO KNOW: Gregory 1988, 32–33.
61 THIS IS NOT QUITE THE WAY: Park 1988, 250.
61 IT IS NOT IN THE LITTLE DETAILS: Quoted in Jourdain 1913, 11.
61 PARK PHRASED THE QUESTION: Park 1988, 252.
62 LET NONE SAY THAT THE ENGINEER: The Tech, MIT, 1938, 275.
62 BUT AFTER THEY HAVE CONQUERED: Ibid.
62 ONE ENJOYED A WOOING PROCESS: SYJ, 17.
62 THEIR FRATERNITY BROTHERS DROVE FEYNMAN: SYJ, 19; F-W, 200–201.
63 OPPORTUNITIES TO HARASS FRESHMEN: Daniel Robbins, telephone interview.
63 THE SECOND AND THIRD FLOORS: Maurice A. Meyer, telephone interview.
63 SO WORRIED ABOUT THE OTHER SEX: SYJ, 18.
63 COURSE NOTES TO BE HANDED DOWN: Michael Oppenheimer, interview, New York.
64 DICK FELT HE GOT A GOOD BARGAIN: SYJ, 18.
64 LONG HOURS AT THE RAYMORE-PLAYMORE: Robbins, interview.
64 THE FEYNMANS LET HER PAINT A PARROT: Lewine, interview.
64 SPARED DICK THE NECESSITY: SYJ, 18.
64 ARLINE WATCHED UNHAPPILY: Meyer, interview.
64 HIS SECOND PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE: F-W, 302 and 122.
65 THE IMPORTANCE OF SCIENCE IN AVIATION: WDY, 31.
65 AT ONE OF THE FATEFUL MOMENTS: Feynman to Lucille Feynman, 9 August 1945, PERS; Weisskopf, interview.
66 THE INSTITUTE JUSTIFIED: F-W, 164 66 A PAIN IN THE NECK: Ibid.
66 IN ONE COURSE HE RESORTED: He admitted it thirty years later, embarrassed—“I lost my moral sense for a while”—to a scholar taking oral history for a science archive. F-W, 164.
66 WHY DIDN’T THE ENGLISH PROFESSORS: Ibid, 165.
66 HE READ JOHN STUART MILL’S: F-L; SYJ, 30.
66 HE READ THOMAS HUXLEY’S: F-W, 170–73.
66 MEANWHILE IN PHYSICS ITSELF: “Subjects taken in physics at Mass. Institute of Technology,” typescript, PUL.
67 WHOM ARLINE WAS READING: F-W, 165–66.
67 HE KNEW ALL ABOUT IMPERFECTION: WDY, 29.
67 PEOPLE LIKE DESCARTES WERE STUPID: F-W, 166.
67 HE TOOK A STRIP OF PAPER: WDY, 29–30.
68 IN THE DISCOVERY OF SECRET THINGS: Gilbert, De Magnete (1600). 68 LIKE A PRIME MINISTER: F-W, 167.
68 THE PRAGMATIC SLATER: Schweber 1989, 58.
68 NOT FROM POSITIONS OF PHILOSOPHERS: Harvey, De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis (1628).
68 UP IN HIS ROOM: F-W, 169–70.
69 I WONDER WHY I WONDER WHY: Ibid., 170; F-L (SYJ, 33).
69 A DISMAYED, DISORIENTED MOMENT: F-L.
70 HE DID DEVELOP A RUDIMENTARY THEORY: SYJ, 36.
70 HE SAT THROUGH LECTURES: Ibid., 32.
70 SO MUCH STUFF IN THERE: F-W, 166.
70 SPACE OF ITSELF AND TIME OF ITSELF: Quoted by Feynman in Lectures, I-17–8.
72 A SMALL FABLE: Dirac 1971.
72 MY WHOLE EFFORT IS TO DESTROY: Quoted in Park 1988, 318.