This is Richard Feynman who I believe should be in the top ten coolest scientists and I can give you at least three reasons why he should.
1. He played bongos. Alot.
This video is of him playing bongos with some guy who lived near his house (not a physicist) and people who followed him and admired him would ask this guy "well what does he talk about?" and he'd say "well we talk about stuff, sometimes we talk about bongos."
2. He cracked safes in his free time. In fact, while working for the American government he managed to guess the 9 digit code for the safe containing all the research for the Manhattan Project, in two goes. He tried what he thought were the two most obvious numbers 1. the first nine numbers Pi (3.14159265) 2. the speed of light (299 792 458 m / s).
Not done with that he turned up to work the next morning placed the Manhattan Project file on his boss's desk and said "you need to change you're password". That is pretty bad ass. I imagine him just swaggering out of there, with maybe, just, this playing in the background.
3. He has a brilliant way with words. He always seems to explain things so well but more importantly he never used a metaphore that's a "good lie" (one that sort of works).
A good metaphor
Why a you should never use a bad metaphor
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