Genius_ The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick [287]
322 KNOWING WHAT FERMI COULD DO: Zuckerman 1977.
323 I THINK IF HE HAD NOT BEEN SO QUICK: Coleman, interview.
324 THE WHOLE QUESTION OF IMAGINATION: Lectures, II-20–10.
325 NOT JUST SOME HAPPY THOUGHTS: Ibid.
325 OUR IMAGINATION IS STRETCHED: CPL, 127–28.
325 WE KNOW SO VERY MUCH: Feynman to Welton, 10 February 1947, CIT
326 THERE ARE SO VERY FEW EQUATIONS: Ibid.
326 MAYBE THAT’S WHY YOUNG PEOPLE: Feynman 1965c.
326 WELTON, TOO, WAS PERSUADED: Welton, interview: “I said, ‘Dick, think in retrospect what would have happened if I had taught you the Q.E.D. that I knew— you would have known too much, and you wouldn’t have been able to innovate as much,’ and he said, ‘You’re right.’”
326 WOULD I HAD PHRASES: Attributed to Khakheperressenb, quoted in Lentricchia 1980, 318.
326 THERE ARE NO LARGE PEOPLE: Quoted by Scott Spencer, “The Old Man and the Novel,” New York Times Magazine, 22 September 1991, 47.
327 GIANTS HAVE NOT CEDED: Gould 1983, 224. 329 THOSE COUNTLESS FOOTNOTES: Merton 1961, 72.
329 I ALWAYS FIND QUESTIONS LIKE THAT: Feynman to James T. Cushing, 21 October 1985, CIT.
330 WEISSKOPF DECLARED AT ONE MEETING: Polkinghorne 1989, 61.
331 FEYNMAN HIMSELF CONFESSED: Millard Susman, personal communication, 29 May 1989.
331 EVERYTHING’S REALLY ALL RIGHT: Untitled videotape, n.d., recorded for the British Broadcasting Corporation; cf. Gardner 1969, 22–23.
331 CHEMISTS CAN MAKE THEM WITH EITHER HANDEDNESS: Feynman 1965e, 98–100.
332 GELL-MANN SPENT A LONG WEEKEND: Gell-Mann, interview.
332 BY THE TIME THE 1956 ROCHESTER CONFERENCE: Pais 1986, 524.
333 BE IT RECORDED HERE THAT ON THE TRAIN: Ibid., 525.
333 AN EXPERIMENTER ASKED FEYNMAN WHAT ODDS: “I mention this story because I was prejudiced against thinking that parity wasn’t conserved, but I knew it might not be. In other words, I couldn’t bet one hundred to one, but just fifty to one.” F-W, 721.
333 PURSUING THE OPEN-MIND APPROACH: Ballam et al. 1956, 27.
333 SOME STRANGE SPACE-TIME: Ibid., 28.
333 THE CHAIRMAN: Ibid.
334 I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE LORD: Quoted in Bernstein 1967, 59–60.
334 WE ARE NO LONGER TRYING TO HANDLE SCREWS: Sheldon Penman, quoted in Gardner 1969, 244.
334 AT THE 1957 ROCHESTER CONFERENCE: Polkinghorne 1989, 65.
334 BUSY EXPLAINING THAT THEY PERSONALLY: Ibid., 64–65.
335 HE REFUSED TO REFEREE PAPERS: “To me there’s an infinite amount of work involved…. I’m not built that way. I can’t think his way. I can’t follow and try to go through all these steps. If I want to worry about the problem, I read the paper to get the problem, and then maybe work it out some other way…. Now, to read and just check steps is— I can’t do.” F-W, 715.
335 MR. BEARD IS VERY COURAGEOUS: Feynman to Theodore Caris, 5 December 1961, CIT.
335 YOU’VE DONE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN,: F-W, 727–28; Joan Feynman.
336 AS LEE POINTED OUT: In Ascoli et al. 1957.
336 IN READING LEE AND YANG’S PREPRINT: F-W, 724.
336 HE LIKED THE IDEA ENOUGH: F-W, 725–26; SYJ, 228.
336 A TWO-COMPONENT EQUATION:
336 SUPPOSE THAT HISTORICALLY: Feynman 1957b, 43.
337 OF COURSE I CAN’T DO THAT: Ibid.
337 MARSHAK AND SUDARSHAN MET WITH GELL-MANN: An unhappy tangle of priority concerns followed. Marshak and Sudarshan were concerned to point out that Gell-Mann had learned of their work in progress in July; Gell-Mann was concerned to point out that he had been thinking about V-A “for all these years.” Marshak and Sudarshan had missed the opportunity to speak at the Rochester meeting in April—when Feynman described his two-component Dirac equation—and forever after found themselves rehearsing their reasons for remaining silent. To their deep dismay, most physicists cited the Feynman-Gell-Mann paper, not the Marshak-Sudarshan paper (Sudarshan 1983, 486; Sudarshan and Marshak 1984, 15–20). They liked to quote a generous remark of Feynman’s long afterward: “We have a conventional theory of weak interactions invented by Marshak and Sudarshan, published by Feynman and Gell-Mann, and completed by Cabibbo….” Feynman 1974b.
337 I FLEW OUT OF THE CHAIR: F-W, 729