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For anyone unfamiliar with the title's origin, it is a play on words of a 1959 Richard Feynman lecture, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to
by Stratoscope 6y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with the title's origin, it is a play on words of a 1959 Richard Feynman lecture, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics".
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- kens 6y agoAnd Feynman's title was a play on Daniel Webster's comment "There's plenty of room at the top" when told that he shouldn't become a lawyer because the field was too crowded.
- DC-3 6y agoI wonder if the author of this article was aware of the etymology or if it's a curious case of mutating references returning to the original?
- williamkuszmaul 6y agoDo you have a reference for Feynman's title being a play on Webster's comment? That would be neat to have.