Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [286]
300 THE MOST BASIC CLUE: Feynman 1955b, 18.
301 THE SPEAKERS HAD NO IDEA: Russell Donnelly, telephone interview.
301 HE HAD TRIED TO PICTURE: Feynman 1953c, 1302.
302 THE CHALLENGE WAS TO DRIVE: “The hardest part of the helium problem was done by physical reasoning alone, without being able to write anything…. it was very very interesting to be able to push through that doggoned thing without having stuff to write.” F-W, 739.
301 HE LAY AWAKE IN BED: F-W, 693–95.
302 THE RINGS OF ATOMS WERE LIKE RINGS OF CHILDREN: Feynman 1958a, 21.
302 TYPICAL FEYNMAN: Donnelly, interview.
303 POSSIBLY I UNDERSTAND: Note, “Possibly I understand …” n.d., CIT.
303 THE YEAR BEFORE, SCHRIEFFER HAD LISTENED: Robert Schrieffer, telephone interview; Feynman 1957a.
303 WE HAVE NO EXCUSE: Feynman 1957a, 212.
304 BY THE FIRST OF THESE MEETINGS: Pais 1986, 461; Polkinghorne 1989, 20.
304 WITHIN A FEW YEARS PARTICLE TABULATIONS: Polkinghorne 1989, 21.
304 GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE BEEN INVADED: C. F. Powell, at a 1953 conference, quoted in Polkinghorne 1989, 48.
305 ONE EXPERIMENTALIST, MARCEL SCHEIN: Crease and Mann 1986, 178.
305 You have a different theory: F-W, 603–5.
306 If a Caltech experimenter: Barry Barish, interview, Pasadena.
307 HE THOUGHT PAIS WAS WRONG: Cell-Mann 1982, 399.
307 AT FOURTEEN HE HAD BEEN DECLARED: Columbiana 1944 (Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School), 28; Bernstein 1987, 20.
308 THE ONLY PERSON WHO WILL KNOW: Ralph Leighton, interview, Pasadena.
308 IT WAS THE CLOSEST TO SUCCESS: Cell-Mann, interview.
308 IT WAS HIS BROTHER: Gell-Mann 1989b, 3.
309 WHEN WEISSKOPF ADVISED HIM: Gell-Mann, interview.
309 FEYNMAN FELT A FLICKER OF ENVY: F-W, 670; SYJ, 223.
309 GELL-MANN, IN CHICAGO, FELT EVEN MORE: “Jealousy was another reason … I resented the publicity being given to the scheme of Pais, which I was convinced was wrong!” Gell-Mann 1982, 399.
310 THE EDITORS OF THE PHYSICAL REVIEW: Gell-Mann 1953; Gell-Mann 1982, 400.
310 WHY SHOULD A BROAD-MINDED THEORIST: Quoted in Polkinghorne 1989, 49. Similarly, the historian ). L. Heilbron: “‘Strangeness,’ a word barely utterable in Romance languages and expressive of a surprise only briefly felt…. Does the new terminology express cynicism or disdain by particle theorists toward their own creations?” “An Historian’s Interest in Particle Physics,” in Brown et al. 1989, 53.
310 THE WINTER FERMI DIED: Gell-Mann, interview.
311 MOST OF HIS BODY WAS CREMATED: Thomas S. Harvey, telephone interview; William L. Laurence, “Key Clue Sought in Einstein Brain,” New York Times, 20 April 1955; Steven Levy, “My Search for Einstein’s Brain,” New Jersey Monthly, August 1978, 43.
311 VARIOUS NINETEENTH-CENTURY RESEARCHERS: Could 1981.
312 IS THERE A NEUROLOGICAL SUBSTRATE: Obler and Fein 1988, 6.
313 ENLIGHTENED, PENETRATING, AND CAPACIOUS MINDS: Duff 1767, 5.
313 RAMBLING AND VOLATILE POWER: Ibid., 9.
313 IMAGINATION IS THAT FACULTY: Ibid., 6–7.
314 IN POINT OF GENIUS: Gerard 1774, 13.
314 A QUESTION OF VERY DIFFICULT SOLUTION: Ibid., 18.
315 IT IS ONE OF THE HOPES: Quoted in Root-Bernstein 1989, 1.
315 A PHYSICIST STUDYING QUANTUM FIELD THEORY: Coleman, interview.
315 FROM GEOMETRY TO LOGARITHMS: Hood 1851, 10–11.
316 THE ASTROPHYSICIST WILLY FOWLER: Thorne, interview; Fowler, interview conducted by Charles Weiner, 30 May 1974, AIP: “I just thought Feynman’s talking through his hat, what can he possibly mean, what can general relativity have to do with these objects?”
316 THAT FEYNMAN HAD SIGNED: John S. Rigden, interview, New York.
317 WHY DO I CALL HIM A MAGICIAN?: Quoted in Dyson 1979, 8–9.
317 MAGICAL MUMBO-JUMBO: Dyson 1979, 8.
318 BETWEEN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MAN: Lombroso 1891, xiii.
319 LET EUROPEAN ROMANTICS CELEBRATE: Currie 1974.
319 I SPEAK WITHOUT EXAGGERATION: Quoted in Grartan 1933, 156.
319 MR. EDISON IS NOT A WIZARD: Quoted in LaFollette 1990, 97.
320 EDISON WAS NOT A WIZARD: Grartan 1933, 151.
320 HONEST CRAFTSMEN: Dyson 1979, 9.
321 HE WAS SEARCHING FOR GENERAL PRINCIPLES: Ibid., 62–63.
321 SO WHAT IS