Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman, Dr. Richard Feynman
12/01
P36 – Tells his class the bottom of the French curve always has a horizontal tangent, d/dx. “I don’t know what the matter with people is: they don’t learn b understanding; they learn by some other way- by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
Excellent Book – my thoughts:
We must learn by thinking
THINK about what is happening
Try new things (Arts, etc.) you might like them
Read more books by this guy
Saturday, December 1, 2001
Saturday, September 1, 2001
Book: Neither Here Nor There
Neither Here Nor There, Bill Bryson
Meghan M rec
9/01
Starts in Hammerfest viewing Northern Lights
Oslo
“There might be certain things that some nations do better than everyone else and certain things that they do far worse, and I begin to wonder why that should be” –p34
Paris with cafes and lines, and then Holland with its windmills look like Nebraska.
The glory of travel “Suddenly you are 5 years old again. You can t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary since of how to cross over a street without endangering you life.
In Spa, BE he speaks of what is learned in grade and high school language classes and how it is of little consequence. Hanging a jacket, erasing the chalkboard. “It is winter soon it will be spring” “In my experience, people know this already.”
P116- Gothenburg, DE – on visiting the islands, “I had a sudden strong urge to visit them all, there would never be enough time. There novelties in life. There wasn’t even enough time for anther cup of coffee”
P131- Rome, “Traveling is more fun- hell; life is more fun if you can treat it as a series of impulses”
P238 – A kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that seems to work is based on self interest and greed
P242 – “You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts that you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place”
Last pg – “Tired above all of my own dull company. How many times in recent days had I sat trapped on busses and trains listening to my idly puttering mind and wished I could just get up and walk out on my self?”
Meghan M rec
9/01
Starts in Hammerfest viewing Northern Lights
Oslo
“There might be certain things that some nations do better than everyone else and certain things that they do far worse, and I begin to wonder why that should be” –p34
Paris with cafes and lines, and then Holland with its windmills look like Nebraska.
The glory of travel “Suddenly you are 5 years old again. You can t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary since of how to cross over a street without endangering you life.
In Spa, BE he speaks of what is learned in grade and high school language classes and how it is of little consequence. Hanging a jacket, erasing the chalkboard. “It is winter soon it will be spring” “In my experience, people know this already.”
P116- Gothenburg, DE – on visiting the islands, “I had a sudden strong urge to visit them all, there would never be enough time. There novelties in life. There wasn’t even enough time for anther cup of coffee”
P131- Rome, “Traveling is more fun- hell; life is more fun if you can treat it as a series of impulses”
P238 – A kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that seems to work is based on self interest and greed
P242 – “You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile effort to recapture the comforts that you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place”
Last pg – “Tired above all of my own dull company. How many times in recent days had I sat trapped on busses and trains listening to my idly puttering mind and wished I could just get up and walk out on my self?”
Wednesday, August 15, 2001
Book: Timeline
Timeline, Michael Crichton
8/01
Interesting book about the possibilities of Quantum theory. Takes place on a river in France in Bath, modern and medieval times, but this is made into more.
8/01
Interesting book about the possibilities of Quantum theory. Takes place on a river in France in Bath, modern and medieval times, but this is made into more.
Wednesday, August 1, 2001
Book: Travels
Travels, Michael Crichton
8/01
An amazing book divided into 3 parts: Med School, travels around the world, and inward travel (read physic explorations).
Great to hear about places he wanted to go and how he learned about himself when he was there. He comments that when things got tough he traveled, not because he was running away from these problems, but because it allowed him to gain perspective on them.
Perhaps the most influential chapter is the last where he argues to scientists who believe physic studies are foolish and a waste of time that they are a study like art and are important. He reminds us that scientists only explain how something works, not why it works. Excellent book.
Notes:
Left Medicine because he felt doctors are not treating people, only disease.
“In self analysis the danger of incompleteness is particularly great. One is too soon satisfied with a part explanation” – Freud
“Existence is beyond the power of words to define” – Lau-Tzu
“What you see is what you see” – Frank Stella
Visits Banaine, Dutch Island fifty mi. off the cost of Venezuela. A sharp mountain peak with shear sides, 20ft beach then drop dives to see a deep sunken freighter
Visits Baltistan in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mtns, the highest mountain range west of the Himalaya, has K2, 10 of 30 highest mountains.
Visits Hunza (country?) [- Likely Hunza Valley, near Gilgit in Pakistan.]
Dives off Rangiroa, one hour from Papecte around in Tahiti.
Men are the romantics, it is impractical to women to be romantic, bottom-line, and the best way to think about men and women is to assume there are no differences.
Says “The difficulty w. making theories, observations may not be wrong, but the conclusions drawn may be” after the tape story in the hotel.
Read Steven Halking, A Short History of Time
Read Richard Feynman
8/01
An amazing book divided into 3 parts: Med School, travels around the world, and inward travel (read physic explorations).
Great to hear about places he wanted to go and how he learned about himself when he was there. He comments that when things got tough he traveled, not because he was running away from these problems, but because it allowed him to gain perspective on them.
Perhaps the most influential chapter is the last where he argues to scientists who believe physic studies are foolish and a waste of time that they are a study like art and are important. He reminds us that scientists only explain how something works, not why it works. Excellent book.
Notes:
Left Medicine because he felt doctors are not treating people, only disease.
“In self analysis the danger of incompleteness is particularly great. One is too soon satisfied with a part explanation” – Freud
“Existence is beyond the power of words to define” – Lau-Tzu
“What you see is what you see” – Frank Stella
Visits Banaine, Dutch Island fifty mi. off the cost of Venezuela. A sharp mountain peak with shear sides, 20ft beach then drop dives to see a deep sunken freighter
Visits Baltistan in Pakistan’s Karakoram Mtns, the highest mountain range west of the Himalaya, has K2, 10 of 30 highest mountains.
Visits Hunza (country?) [- Likely Hunza Valley, near Gilgit in Pakistan.]
Dives off Rangiroa, one hour from Papecte around in Tahiti.
Men are the romantics, it is impractical to women to be romantic, bottom-line, and the best way to think about men and women is to assume there are no differences.
Says “The difficulty w. making theories, observations may not be wrong, but the conclusions drawn may be” after the tape story in the hotel.
Read Steven Halking, A Short History of Time
Read Richard Feynman
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