Show description

Letter to Dr. Victor F. Weisskopf, April 1962 The first morning I drove in was tremendously impressive; the beauty of the scenery, for a person from the east who didn’t travel much, was sensational. There are the great cliffs; you’ve probably seen the pictures, I won’t go into much detail. These things were high on the mesa and you’d come up from below and see these great cliffs and we were very surprised. The most impressive thing to me was that as I was going up, I said that maybe there were Indians even living here, and the guy who was driving the car just stopped; he stopped the car and walked around the corner and there were Indian caves that you could inspect.

But he would describe anyway, in a vivid way, and always with some kind of lesson about it. ” – Interview with Charles Weiner, March 4, 1966 (Niels Bohr Library and Archives with the Center for the History of Physics) 10 The Quotable Feynman [On his sister, also a physicist:] She would hear us talking, and she would ask me, and I would explain it to her. It wasn’t so direct in her case. – Interview with Charles Weiner, March 4, 1966 (Niels Bohr Library and Archives with the Center for the History of Physics) I was always very upset if something went bad or if I was bad — I always tried to be a good boy.

That didn’t seem too unobvious, but the ratio had some marvelous property. There was a mystery about this number that I didn’t quite understand as a youth, but this was a great thing, and the result was that I looked for pi everywhere. ” April 1966 [On his son:] He’s a lot like me, so at least I’ve passed on this idea that everything is interesting to at least one other person. Of course, I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not, you see? – Omni interview, February 1979 18 The Quotable Feynman [Advice to a father about a son:] The two of you — father and son — should take walks in the evening and talk (without purpose or routes) about this and that.