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"I've got to stop somewhere, and leave you something to imagine <giggle>." A humbling exhortation, if ever there was one. I loved reading his lectures (as opp
by boredguy8 16y ago
"I've got to stop somewhere, and leave you something to imagine <giggle>."
A humbling exhortation, if ever there was one.
I loved reading his lectures (as opposed to the classes I was in) because he was interested in getting to the 'what's going on', not the 'here's the equation to know.' One of his autobiographies talks about his frustration in this area when he was talking about polarized light at a university outside the US. They had spent all day talking about polarized light in the classroom, but nobody could predict or explain what was going on when he took two polarized filters and stacked & rotated them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
That's a phenomenal video of him explaining how to ask questions. And does a great job explaining that, "Why?" questions aren't very good questions, without a context. And goes from there to 'everyday QED' with elegance and grace.