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Richard Feynman

I do theoretical physics research: I built a working quantum electrodynamics, invented the diagrams physicists now use to calculate with it, and shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for that science.

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself
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What I cannot create I do not understand
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Principle

Students who memorise without context learn no physics

Teaching in Brazil, reviewing California textbooks in 1964 and addressing science teachers in 1966, I argued that education built on rote memorisation does not produce learning; science teaching must train doubt.

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Physics for fun brought me back to real research

Burned out after the war, I started solving physics problems for my own satisfaction — like a wobbling plate tossed in the Cornell cafeteria. That play with rotation equations proved important to my Nobel-winning science.

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